Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 23
He published his Life of Æsop, Anno Domini 1632.
Who acts: honour · What happens: publish · To what, where: Life
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 (honour), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 published | nsubj |
| 2 | published | publish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Life | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 published | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Æsop | case |
| 6 | Æsop | Æsop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Life | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Anno | punct |
| 8 | Anno | Anno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Life | conj |
| 9 | Domini | Domini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Anno | flat |
| 10 | 1632 | 1632 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 Domini | flat |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 published | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | publish | past | honour | honour's Life of Æsop and Anno | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Result |
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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