Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 95
Nevelet intimates an opinion, that a writer named Babrias would be found to be the veritable author of the existing form of Æsopian Fables.
Who acts: Nevelet · What happens: intimate, name, find, be, exist, form · To what, where: opinion, writer, veritable author, Æsopian Fables
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nevelet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nevelet | Nevelet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 intimates | nsubj |
| 2 | intimates | intimate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 opinion | det |
| 4 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 intimates | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 found | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 writer | det |
| 8 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | nsubj |
| 9 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 writer | acl |
| 10 | Babrias | Babrias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 named | xcomp |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 found | aux:pass |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 intimates | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 author | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 author | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 author | det |
| 17 | veritable | veritable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 author | amod |
| 18 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | advcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 form | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 form | det |
| 21 | existing | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 form | amod |
| 22 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 author | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Fables | case |
| 24 | Æsopian | æsopian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Fables | amod |
| 25 | Fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 form | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 intimates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intimate speech: other | present | Nevelet | a opinion | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent opinion=Topic | ||||
| 2 | name | participle | a writer not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find | would · passive | a writer | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | the veritable author | of the existing form of Æsopian Fables | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | exist | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | form | Æsopian Fables | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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