Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 22
They were first brought to light, after a patient search and diligent perusal of ancient authors, by a Frenchman, M. Claude Gaspard Bachet de Mezeriac, who declined the honour of being tutor to Louis XIII. of France, from his desire to devote himself exclusively to literature.
Who acts: patient search, France · What happens: bring, decline, be, devote, peruse, desire · To what, where: facts, light, honour, ancient authors
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 (patient search, France), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux:pass |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 brought | advmod |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 light | case |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 search | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 search | det |
| 10 | patient | patient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 search | amod |
| 11 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 perusal | cc |
| 13 | diligent | diligent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 perusal | amod |
| 14 | perusal | perusal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 search | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 authors | case |
| 16 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 authors | amod |
| 17 | authors | author | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 perusal | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Frenchman | punct |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Frenchman | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Frenchman | det |
| 21 | Frenchman | frenchman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 search | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Claude | punct |
| 23 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Claude | compound |
| 24 | Claude | Claude | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 search | conj |
| 25 | Gaspard | Gaspard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Claude | flat |
| 26 | Bachet | Bachet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Claude | flat |
| 27 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Claude | flat |
| 28 | Mezeriac | Mezeriac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Claude | flat |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 declined | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 declined | nsubj |
| 31 | declined | decline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 search | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 honour | det |
| 33 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 declined | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 tutor | case |
| 35 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 tutor | cop |
| 36 | tutor | tutor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 honour | nmod |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 XIII | case |
| 38 | Louis | Louis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 XIII | nmod:unmarked |
| 39 | XIII | XIII | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 31 declined | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 France | case |
| 42 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 desire | punct |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 desire | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 desire | nmod:poss |
| 46 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | parataxis |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 devote | mark |
| 48 | devote | devote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 desire | acl |
| 49 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 48 devote | obj |
| 50 | exclusively | exclusively | ADV | _ | 52 literature | advmod |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 literature | case |
| 52 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 devote | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | facts = fact | light | after a patient search and diligent perusal of ancient authors and a Frenchman and M. Claude | of France; first property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme to light=Destination of france=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | decline | past | a patient search and diligent perusal of ancient authors and a Frenchman and M. Claude | the honour | to XIII Louis | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient honour=Extent to xiii=Result | |||
| 3 | is | gerund | of tutor | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | devote | to-infinitive | honour | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | peruse | ancient authors | nom perusal «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | desire | France | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=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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