Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 18

Neither did the great fabulist lack posthumous honours; for a statue was erected to his memory at Athens, the work of Lysippus, one of the most famous of Greek sculptors.

Who acts: great fabulist, Lysippus · What happens: do, lack, erect, work · To what, where: posthumous honours

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 (great fabulist, Lysippus), 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	Neither	neither	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fabulist	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fabulist	amod
5	fabulist	fabulist	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lack	nsubj
6	lack	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	posthumous	posthumous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 honours	amod
8	honours	honour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lack	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 erected	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 statue	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 statue	det
12	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 erected	obl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 erected	aux:pass
14	erected	erect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 did	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 memory	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 memory	nmod:poss
17	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 erected	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 Athens	case
19	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 memory	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 work	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 work	det
22	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 memory	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Lysippus	case
24	Lysippus	Lysippus	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 work	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 erected	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 famous	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 famous	det
29	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	30 famous	advmod
30	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 one	amod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 sculptors	case
32	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sculptors	amod
33	sculptors	sculptor	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 famous	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past			neither property	tree rules
2	lack	present	the great fabulist	posthumous honours		tree rules
3	erect	past · passive			for a statue; to fabulist's memory at Athens and the work of Lysippus	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for statue=Beneficiary
4	work		Lysippus			nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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