Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 3

Although the honour thus claimed cannot be definitely assigned to any one of these places, yet there are a few incidents now generally accepted by scholars as established facts, relating to the birth, life, and death of Æsop.

Who acts: honour, scholars, Æsop · What happens: claim, not assign, accept, establish, relate, die · To what, where: honour, one, death

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, scholars, Æsop), 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	Although	although	SCONJ	_	10 assigned	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 honour	det
3	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 assigned	nsubj:pass
4	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 claimed	advmod
5	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 honour	acl:relcl
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 assigned	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 assigned	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 assigned	aux:pass
9	definitely	definitely	ADV	_	10 assigned	advmod
10	assigned	assign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 are	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 one	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 assigned	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 places	case
15	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 places	det
16	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 are	punct
18	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	20 are	cc
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 are	expl
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 accepted	aux:pass
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 incidents	det
22	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 incidents	amod
23	incidents	incident	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 are	nsubj
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 accepted	advmod
25	generally	generally	ADV	_	26 accepted	advmod
26	accepted	accept	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 scholars	case
28	scholars	scholar	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 accepted	obl:agent
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 facts	case
30	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 facts	amod
31	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 accepted	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 relating	punct
33	relating	relate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 accepted	advcl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 birth	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 birth	det
36	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 relating	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 life	punct
38	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 birth	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 death	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 death	cc
41	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 accepted	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 Æsop	case
43	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 death	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 accepted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	past	the honour not said here				thus property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not assign	can · passive		the honour	any one of this places		definitely property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to one=Goal
3	accept	present · passive	scholars	death of Æsop		now	as established facts; generally property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as fact=Attribute
4	establish	participle						vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
5	relate	gerund	scholars not said here				to the birth and life	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to birth=Co-Theme
6	die		Æsop					nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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