Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 49
19 (return) [ Dr. Bentley’s Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, and Fables of Æsop examined.
Who acts: Fables, Bentley · What happens: examine, dissertate · To what, where: Epistles
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 (Fables, 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 | 19 | 19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 3 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 19 | appos |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 5 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Dissertations | punct |
| 6 | Dr. | Dr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bentley | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Bentley | Bentley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Dissertations | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Bentley | case |
| 9 | Dissertations | dissertation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 return | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Epistles | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Epistles | det |
| 12 | Epistles | Epistle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 Dissertations | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Phalaris | case |
| 14 | Phalaris | Phalaris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Epistles | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 examined | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 examined | cc |
| 17 | Fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 examined | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Æsop | case |
| 19 | Æsop | Æsop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Fables | nmod |
| 20 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Epistles | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 19 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | examine | past | Fables of Æsop | the Epistles of Phalaris not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent epistle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dissertate | Bentley Dr. | the Epistles of Phalaris | nom dissertation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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