Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 29
[20] It is given up in the present day, by general consent, as unworthy of the slightest credit.
Who acts: general consent · What happens: give up · To what, where: 20
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 (general consent), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
| 2 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 20 | punct |
| 4 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 given | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 given | aux:pass |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 given | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 10 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 day | amod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 consent | punct |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 consent | case |
| 14 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 consent | amod |
| 15 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 unworthy | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 unworthy | case |
| 18 | unworthy | unworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 given | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 credit | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 credit | det |
| 21 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 credit | amod |
| 22 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 unworthy | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | present · passive | general consent | 20 | day | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Source |
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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