Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 13
“Il n’y a point d’apparence que les fables qui portent aujourd’hui son nom soient les mêmes qu’il avait faites; elles viennent bien de lui pour la plupart, quant à la matière et la pensée; mais les paroles sont d’un autre.”
Who acts: Il, que les, qu’il, viennent bien, you, mais · What happens: n'y, portent, faite, plupart, quant, parole · To what, where: point d’apparence, à la, sont d’un autre
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Il, que les, qu’il, viennent bien), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 n’y | punct |
| 2 | Il | Il | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 n’y | nsubj |
| 3 | n’y | n'y | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 quant | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 d’apparence | det |
| 5 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 d’apparence | compound |
| 6 | d’apparence | d'apparence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 n’y | obj |
| 7 | que | que | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 les | flat:foreign |
| 8 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 portent | nsubj |
| 9 | fables | fables | X | _ | 11 portent | compound |
| 10 | qui | qui | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 portent | compound |
| 11 | portent | portent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 n’y | parataxis |
| 12 | aujourd’hui | aujourd'hui | X | _ | 14 nom | compound |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nom | compound |
| 14 | nom | nom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 portent | conj |
| 15 | soient | soient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mêmes | amod |
| 16 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 17 mêmes | flat:foreign |
| 17 | mêmes | même | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 nom | appos |
| 18 | qu’il | qu'il | X | Foreign=Yes | 20 faites | nsubj |
| 19 | avait | avait | X | _ | 20 faites | compound |
| 20 | faites | faite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 mêmes | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 bien | punct |
| 22 | elles | elles | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 viennent | advmod |
| 23 | viennent | viennent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bien | amod |
| 24 | bien | bien | X | Foreign=Yes | 29 plupart | nsubj |
| 25 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 bien | flat:foreign |
| 26 | lui | lui | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 bien | flat:foreign |
| 27 | pour | pour | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 bien | flat:foreign |
| 28 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 24 bien | flat:foreign |
| 29 | plupart | plupart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 n’y | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 quant | punct |
| 31 | quant | quant | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | à | à | X | Foreign=Yes | 33 la | flat:foreign |
| 33 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 31 quant | obj |
| 34 | matière | matière | X | Foreign=Yes | 33 la | flat:foreign |
| 35 | et | et | X | Foreign=Yes | 37 pensée | amod |
| 36 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 37 pensée | compound |
| 37 | pensée | pensée | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 la | flat |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 paroles | punct |
| 39 | mais | mais | X | Foreign=Yes | 41 paroles | nsubj |
| 40 | les | les | X | Foreign=Yes | 41 paroles | flat:foreign |
| 41 | paroles | parole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 quant | obl |
| 42 | sont | sont | X | Foreign=Yes | 44 autre | compound |
| 43 | d’un | d'un | X | _ | 44 autre | compound |
| 44 | autre | autre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 paroles | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 autre | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 autre | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | n'y in a quote | infinitive | Il | a point d’apparence | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | portent in a quote | que les | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | faite in a quote | qu’il | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | plupart in a quote | viennent bien | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | quant in a quote | imperative | you not said here | à la | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | parole in a quote | mais | sont d’un autre | 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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