Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 5
Æschylus speaks of this fable as existing before his day. ὡς δ’ ἐστὶ μύθων τῶν Διβυστικῶν λογος.
Who acts: Æschylus · What happens: speak, exist · To what, where: ὡς δ · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Æschylus), 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 | Æschylus | Æschylus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 speaks | nsubj |
| 2 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fable | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 fable | det |
| 5 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 speaks | obl |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 existing | mark |
| 7 | existing | exist | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 speaks | advcl |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 day | nmod:poss |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 existing | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 δ | punct |
| 12 | ὡς | ὡς | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 δ | amod |
| 13 | δ | δ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 speaks | obl |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 δ | punct |
| 15 | ἐστὶ | ἐστὶ | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 δ | conj |
| 16 | μύθων | μύθων | X | Foreign=Yes | 15 ἐστὶ | flat:foreign |
| 17 | τῶν | τῶν | ADP | _ | 19 λογος | case |
| 18 | Διβυστικῶν | Διβυστικῶν | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 λογος | compound |
| 19 | λογος | λογος | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ἐστὶ | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 speaks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | Æschylus | ὡς δ | of this fable | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | exist | gerund | Æschylus not said here | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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