Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 42

16 (return) [ The claims of Babrias also found a warm advocate in the learned Frenchman, M. Bayle, who, in his admirable Dictionary, (_Dictionnaire Historique et Critique de Pierre Bayle_.

Who acts: return, Dictionnaire · What happens: find, learn, et, claim · To what, where: 16, Critique, Babrias

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 (return, Dictionnaire), 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	16	16	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 found	obl
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 return	punct
3	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	nsubj
4	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 return	punct
5	[	[	PUNCT	_	7 claims	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 claims	det
7	claims	claim	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 found	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Babrias	case
9	Babrias	Babrias	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 claims	nmod
10	also	also	ADV	_	11 found	advmod
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 advocate	det
13	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 advocate	amod
14	advocate	advocate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 Frenchman	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Frenchman	det
17	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 Frenchman	amod
18	Frenchman	frenchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 advocate	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 M.	punct
20	M.	M.	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Frenchman	appos
21	Bayle	Bayle	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 M.	flat
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Dictionary	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 Dictionary	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Dictionary	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 Dictionary	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 Dictionary	nmod:poss
27	admirable	admirable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Dictionary	amod
28	Dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Frenchman	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 et	punct
30	(	(	PUNCT	_	34 et	punct
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	34 et	punct
32	Dictionnaire	Dictionnaire	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 et	nsubj
33	Historique	Historique	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Dictionnaire	flat
34	et	et	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	parataxis
35	Critique	critique	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 et	obj
36	de	de	ADP	_	37 Pierre	case
37	Pierre	Pierre	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Critique	nmod
38	Bayle	Bayle	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Pierre	flat
39	_	_	PUNCT	_	34 et	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	return	16		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advocate=Topic
2	learn	participle				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	et	past	Dictionnaire	Critique	de Pierre	tree rules
4	claim			Babrias		nom claim «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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