Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 24

The later investigations of a host of English and German scholars have added very little to the facts given by M. Mezeriac.

What happens: add, give, investigate · To what, where: later investigations, facts, host

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.

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 investigations	det
2	later	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 investigations	amod
3	investigations	investigation	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 added	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 host	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 host	det
6	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 investigations	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 English	case
8	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 host	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 scholars	cc
10	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 scholars	amod
11	scholars	scholar	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 host	conj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 added	aux
13	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 little	advmod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 added	obl:unmarked
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 facts	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 facts	det
18	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 added	obl
19	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 facts	acl
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 M.	case
21	M.	M.	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 given	obl:agent
22	Mezeriac	Mezeriac	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 M.	flat
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 added	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present · perfect · passive	the later investigations of a host of English and German scholars	to the facts; little obl:unmarked	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to fact=Co-Patient
2	give	participle	the facts not said here		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	investigate		a host of English and German scholars		nom investigation «cognition 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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