Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 25
The substantial truth of his statements has been confirmed by later criticism and inquiry.
Who acts: later criticism, truth · What happens: confirm, state · To what, where: substantial truth
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 (later criticism, truth), 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 truth | det |
| 2 | substantial | substantial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 truth | amod |
| 3 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 confirmed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 statements | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 statements | nmod:poss |
| 6 | statements | statement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 truth | nmod |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 confirmed | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 confirmed | aux:pass |
| 9 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 criticism | case |
| 11 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 criticism | amod |
| 12 | criticism | criticism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 confirmed | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 inquiry | cc |
| 14 | inquiry | inquiry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 criticism | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 confirmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confirm | present · perfect · passive | later criticism and inquiry | the substantial truth of truth's statements | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | state | truth | nom statement «communication 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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