Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 12

At one time he is found in Corinth, and at another in Athens, endeavouring, by the narration of some of his wise fables, to reconcile the inhabitants of those cities to the administration of their respective rulers Periander and Pisistratus.

What happens: find, endeavour, reconcile, administer · To what, where: Phrygian, Corinth, inhabitants, respective rulers

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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 time	nummod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 found	aux:pass
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Corinth	case
8	Corinth	Corinth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 found	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 endeavouring	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 endeavouring	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 another	case
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 endeavouring	aux
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 Athens	case
14	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 another	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 endeavouring	punct
16	endeavouring	endeavour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 found	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 narration	punct
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 narration	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 narration	det
20	narration	narration	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 endeavouring	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 some	case
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 narration	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 fables	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 fables	nmod:poss
25	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fables	amod
26	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 some	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 reconcile	punct
28	to	to	PART	_	29 reconcile	mark
29	reconcile	reconcile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 endeavouring	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 inhabitants	det
31	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 reconcile	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 cities	case
33	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 cities	det
34	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 inhabitants	nmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 administration	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 administration	det
37	administration	administration	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 reconcile	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 rulers	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 rulers	nmod:poss
40	respective	respective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 rulers	amod
41	rulers	ruler	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 administration	nmod
42	Periander	Periander	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 rulers	appos
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 Pisistratus	cc
44	Pisistratus	Pisistratus	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Periander	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present · passive	Phrygian	Corinth	time		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	endeavour					by the narration of some	tree rules
3	reconcile	to-infinitive	the inhabitants of that cities			to the administration of inhabitants's respective rulers	tree rules
4	administer		inhabitants's respective rulers				nom administration «act transitive»: of=patient

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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