Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 26

It remains to state, that prior to this publication of M. Mezeriac, the life of Æsop was from the pen of Maximus Planudes, a monk of Constantinople, who was sent on an embassy to Venice by the Byzantine Emperor Andronicus the elder, and who wrote in the early part of the fourteenth century.

Who acts: inquiry, life, Byzantine Emperor Andronicus · What happens: remain, be, send, write, publish · To what, where: pen, monk, Venice, embassy, early part, M.

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 (inquiry, life, Byzantine Emperor Andronicus), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remains	nsubj
2	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 state	case
4	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remains	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 publication	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 publication	nsubj
7	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	10 publication	case
8	to	to	ADP	_	7 prior	fixed
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 publication	det
10	publication	publication	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 state	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 M.	case
12	M.	M.	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 publication	nmod
13	Mezeriac	Mezeriac	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 M.	flat
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pen	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 life	det
16	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pen	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Æsop	case
18	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 life	nmod
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 pen	cop
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 pen	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pen	det
22	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remains	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 Planudes	case
24	Maximus	Maximus	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Planudes	compound
25	Planudes	Planude	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 pen	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 monk	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 monk	det
28	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Planudes	appos
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Constantinople	case
30	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 monk	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sent	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 sent	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 sent	aux:pass
34	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 monk	acl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 embassy	case
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 embassy	det
37	embassy	embassy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sent	obl
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 Venice	case
39	Venice	Venice	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 sent	obl
40	by	by	ADP	_	44 Andronicus	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Andronicus	det
42	Byzantine	Byzantine	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Andronicus	compound
43	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Andronicus	compound
44	Andronicus	Andronicus	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 sent	obl
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 elder	det
46	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sent	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 wrote	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 wrote	cc
49	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 wrote	nsubj
50	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remains	parataxis
51	in	in	ADP	_	54 part	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 part	det
53	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 part	amod
54	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 wrote	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	58 century	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 century	det
57	fourteenth	fourteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 century	amod
58	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 part	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	remain	present	inquiry				to state prior this publication of M.	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the life of Æsop			the pen	of Maximus Planudes	tree rules
3	send	past · passive	the Byzantine Emperor Andronicus	a monk of Constantinople	Venice	a embassy		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination elder=Theme
4	write	past				the early part of the fourteenth century		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in part=Destination
5	publish			M.				nom publication «communication 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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