Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 37
15 (return) [ Vavassor’s treatise, entitled “De Ludicrâ Dictione” was written A.D.
Who acts: treatise · What happens: entitle, write · To what, where: 15 return
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 (treatise), 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 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 return | nummod |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 3 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 written | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 5 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 8 treatise | punct |
| 6 | Vavassor | Vavassor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 treatise | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Vavassor | case |
| 8 | treatise | treatise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 written | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 entitled | punct |
| 10 | entitled | entitle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 treatise | acl:relcl |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Dictione | punct |
| 12 | De | De | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ludicrâ | compound |
| 13 | Ludicrâ | Ludicrâ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Dictione | compound |
| 14 | Dictione | Dictione | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 entitled | ccomp |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Dictione | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 written | aux:pass |
| 17 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | A.D | A.D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 written | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entitle | past | Vavassor's treatise not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | write | past · passive | 15 return | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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