Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 14

And again, “C’est donc à Hésiode, que j’aimerais mieux attribuer la gloire de l’invention; mais sans doute il laissa la chose très imparfaite.

Who acts: mais, il · What happens: san, choose · To what, where: très imparfaite · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mais, il), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 donc	cc
2	again	again	ADV	_	6 donc	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 donc	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 donc	punct
5	C’est	C'est	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 donc	compound
6	donc	donc	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	à	à	ADP	_	8 Hésiode	case
8	Hésiode	Hésiode	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 donc	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 j’aimerais	punct
10	que	que	X	Foreign=Yes	11 j’aimerais	compound
11	j’aimerais	j'aimerais	X	Foreign=Yes	6 donc	appos
12	mieux	mieux	X	Foreign=Yes	11 j’aimerais	flat
13	attribuer	attribuer	X	Foreign=Yes	11 j’aimerais	flat:foreign
14	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	11 j’aimerais	flat:foreign
15	gloire	gloire	X	Foreign=Yes	11 j’aimerais	flat
16	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	15 gloire	flat
17	l’invention	l'invention	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gloire	flat:foreign
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 sans	punct
19	mais	mais	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sans	nsubj
20	sans	san	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 donc	conj
21	doute	doute	ADV	_	22 il	advmod
22	il	il	X	Foreign=Yes	25 chose	nsubj
23	laissa	laissa	X	Foreign=Yes	22 il	flat:foreign
24	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	22 il	flat:foreign
25	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sans	ccomp
26	très	très	X	Foreign=Yes	27 imparfaite	compound
27	imparfaite	imparfaite	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 chose	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 donc	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	san in a quote	present	mais						tree rules
2	choose in a quote	past	il	très imparfaite					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent imparfaite=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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