Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 98

He is generally supposed to have been a Greek of Asia Minor, of one of the Ionic Colonies, but the exact period in which he lived and wrote is yet unsettled.

Who acts: Babrias · What happens: suppose, be, live, write, unsettle · To what, where: Babrias, Greek, exact period

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 (Babrias), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 supposed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 supposed	aux:pass
3	generally	generally	ADV	_	4 supposed	advmod
4	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	9 Greek	mark
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 Greek	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 Greek	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Greek	det
9	Greek	Greek	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 supposed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Asia	case
11	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Greek	nmod
12	Minor	Minor	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Greek	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 supposed	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 Colonies	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Colonies	det
18	Ionic	ionic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Colonies	amod
19	Colonies	Colony	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 unsettled	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 unsettled	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 period	det
23	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 period	amod
24	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 unsettled	nsubj:pass
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 lived	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lived	nsubj
28	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 period	acl:relcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 wrote	cc
30	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 lived	conj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 unsettled	aux:pass
32	yet	yet	ADV	_	33 unsettled	advmod
33	unsettled	unsettle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 supposed	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 supposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suppose	present · passive		Babrias			generally property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
2	is a	to-infinitive · perfect		a Greek			of Asia	tree rules
3	live	past	Babrias		the exact period			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
4	write	past	Babrias not said here					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	unsettle	present · passive		the exact period		yet		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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