Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 43

Paris, 1820,) gives additional arguments in confirmation of the opinions of his learned predecessors, Nevelet and Vavassor.]

Who acts: Paris · What happens: give, learn, confirm, opine · To what, where: additional arguments, confirmation, opinions, learned predecessors

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 (Paris), 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	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gives	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 1820	punct
3	1820	1820	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Paris	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Paris	punct
5	)	)	PUNCT	_	1 Paris	punct
6	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	additional	additional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 arguments	amod
8	arguments	argument	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gives	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 confirmation	case
10	confirmation	confirmation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 opinions	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 opinions	det
13	opinions	opinion	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 confirmation	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 predecessors	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 predecessors	nmod:poss
16	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 predecessors	amod
17	predecessors	predecessor	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 opinions	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Nevelet	punct
19	Nevelet	Nevelet	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 predecessors	appos
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 Vavassor	cc
21	Vavassor	Vavassor	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Nevelet	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gives	punct
23	]	]	PUNCT	_	6 gives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	give	present	Paris	additional arguments	confirmation of the opinions of Paris's learned predecessors	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Theme
2	learn	participle				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	confirm			the opinions of Paris's learned predecessors		nom confirmation «cognition transitive»: of=patient
4	opine			Paris's learned predecessors		nom opinion «cognition 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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