Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 97

The history of Babrias is so strange and interesting, that it might not unfitly be enumerated among the curiosities of literature.

Who acts: history · What happens: be, not enumerate · To what, where: history

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 (history), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 history	det
2	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 strange	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Babrias	case
4	Babrias	Babrias	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 history	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 strange	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 strange	advmod
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 interesting	cc
9	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 strange	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 enumerated	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 enumerated	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 enumerated	nsubj:pass
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 enumerated	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 enumerated	advmod
15	unfitly	unfitly	ADV	_	17 enumerated	advmod
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 enumerated	aux:pass
17	enumerated	enumerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 strange	conj
18	among	among	ADP	_	20 curiosities	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 curiosities	det
20	curiosities	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 enumerated	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 literature	case
22	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 curiosities	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 strange	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the history of Babrias		strange property	tree rules
2	be		the history of Babrias not said here			tree rules
3	not enumerate	might · passive		history	among the curiosities of literature; unfitly property	tree rules

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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