Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 51

20 (return) [ M. Bayle thus characterises this Life of Æsop by Planudes, “Tous les habiles gens conviennent que c’est un roman, et que les absurdités grossières qui l’on y trouve le rendent indigne de toute créance.”

Who acts: 20, Tous · What happens: characteris, habile · To what, where: Life, conviennent c’est · 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 (20, Tous), 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	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 characterises	nsubj
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 return	punct
3	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 characterises	nsubj
4	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 return	punct
5	[	[	PUNCT	_	6 M.	punct
6	M.	M.	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 return	appos
7	Bayle	Bayle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 M.	flat
8	thus	thus	ADV	_	9 characterises	advmod
9	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 Life	det
11	Life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 characterises	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Æsop	case
13	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Life	nmod
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 Planudes	case
15	Planudes	Planude	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 characterises	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 habiles	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 Tous	punct
18	Tous	Tous	X	Foreign=Yes	20 habiles	nsubj
19	les	les	X	Foreign=Yes	18 Tous	flat:foreign
20	habiles	habile	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 characterises	parataxis
21	gens	gen	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 c’est	nsubj
22	conviennent	conviennent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 c’est	amod
23	que	que	X	Foreign=Yes	24 c’est	nsubj
24	c’est	c'	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 habiles	nmod
25	un	un	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 roman	det
26	roman	roman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 c’est	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 les	punct
28	et	et	CCONJ	_	30 les	cc
29	que	que	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 les	compound
30	les	le	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 c’est	parataxis
31	absurdités	absurdités	X	Foreign=Yes	30 les	conj
32	grossières	grossières	X	Foreign=Yes	31 absurdités	flat:foreign
33	qui	qui	X	Foreign=Yes	31 absurdités	flat:foreign
34	l’on	l'on	X	Foreign=Yes	31 absurdités	flat:foreign
35	y	y	X	_	31 absurdités	flat:foreign
36	trouve	trouve	X	Foreign=Yes	31 absurdités	flat:foreign
37	le	le	X	Foreign=Yes	39 indigne	compound
38	rendent	rendent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 indigne	amod
39	indigne	indigne	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 absurdités	appos
40	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	39 indigne	flat:foreign
41	toute	toute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 créance	amod
42	créance	créance	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 indigne	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 les	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 habiles	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	characteris	present	20	this Life of Æsop				by Planudes; thus property	tree rules
2	habile in a quote		Tous	conviennent c’est					tree rules

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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