Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 1

The Life and History of Æsop is involved, like that of Homer, the most famous of Greek poets, in much obscurity.

Who acts: Life · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Life of Aesop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Life), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Life	det
2	Life	Life	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 involved	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 History	cc
4	History	History	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Life	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Æsop	case
6	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Life	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 involved	cop
8	involved	involved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Homer	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 Homer	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Homer	case
13	Homer	Homer	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 involved	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 famous	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 famous	det
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 famous	advmod
17	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Homer	amod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 poets	case
19	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 poets	amod
20	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 famous	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 obscurity	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 obscurity	case
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 obscurity	amod
24	obscurity	obscurity	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 famous	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 involved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Life of Æsop and History					of Homer; involved property	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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