Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 99
He is placed, by one critic,[14] as far back as the institution of the Achaian League, B.C.
Who acts: one critic · What happens: place · To what, where: 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 (one critic), 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 | 3 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 placed | aux:pass |
| 3 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 critic | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 critic | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 critic | nummod |
| 7 | critic | critic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 14 | punct |
| 9 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 10 14 | punct |
| 10 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 critic | appos |
| 11 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 10 14 | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 far | advmod |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 back | advmod |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 placed | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 institution | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 institution | det |
| 17 | institution | institution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 League | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 League | det |
| 20 | Achaian | Achaian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 League | compound |
| 21 | League | League | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 institution | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 B.C | punct |
| 23 | B.C | B.C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 League | flat |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | present · passive | one critic | period | as the institution of the Achaian League | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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