Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 48
18 (return) [ See Dr. Bentley’s Dissertations upon the Epistles of Phalaris.]
Who acts: return, Bentley · What happens: see, dissertate · To what, where: Dissertations
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, Bentley), 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 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 3 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 18 | appos |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 5 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 6 See | punct |
| 6 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 return | acl:relcl |
| 7 | Dr. | Dr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Bentley | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Bentley | Bentley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Dissertations | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Bentley | case |
| 10 | Dissertations | dissertation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 See | obj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 Epistles | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Epistles | det |
| 13 | Epistles | Epistle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 Dissertations | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Phalaris | case |
| 15 | Phalaris | Phalaris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Epistles | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 18 | punct |
| 17 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 1 18 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | return not said here | Bentley Dr.'s Dissertations | upon the Epistles of Phalaris | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dissertation=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | dissertate | Bentley Dr. | upon the Epistles of Phalaris | nom dissertation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent upon=obl |
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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