Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 21

These few facts are all that can be relied on with any degree of certainty, in reference to the birth, life, and death of Æsop.

Who acts: Æsop · What happens: be, rely on, die · To what, where: that, few facts, reference

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 (Æsop), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 facts	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 facts	amod
3	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 relied	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 that	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 that	advmod
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 facts	nmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 relied	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 relied	aux:pass
9	relied	rely	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 relied	compound:prt
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 degree	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 degree	det
13	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 relied	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 certainty	case
15	certainty	certainty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 degree	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 reference	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 reference	case
18	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 relied	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 birth	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 birth	det
21	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reference	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 life	punct
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 birth	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 death	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 death	cc
26	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 relied	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Æsop	case
28	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 death	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 relied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		that		all property	tree rules
2	rely on	can · passive		this few facts	reference to the birth and life	with any degree of certainty; death of Æsop obl	tree rules
3	die		Æsop				nom death «event 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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