Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 4

He is, by an almost universal consent, allowed to have been born about the year 620 B.C., and to have been by birth a slave.

Who acts: honour, universal consent · What happens: be, allow, bear · To what, where: universal consent

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, universal 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 consent	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 consent	cop
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 consent	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	8 consent	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 consent	det
6	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 universal	advmod
7	universal	universal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 consent	amod
8	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 allowed	punct
10	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 consent	acl
11	to	to	PART	_	14 born	mark
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 born	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 born	aux:pass
14	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 allowed	xcomp
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 year	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 year	det
17	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 born	obl
18	620	620	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 year	appos
19	B.C	B.C	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 620	nmod:unmarked
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 allowed	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 birth	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 birth	cc
23	to	to	PART	_	27 birth	mark
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 birth	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 birth	cop
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 birth	case
27	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 consent	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 slave	det
29	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 birth	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 consent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	honour			by a universal consent and birth and a slave	tree rules
2	allow	participle		a universal consent and birth and a slave not said here			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
3	bear not said to happen	to-infinitive · perfect · passive	a universal consent and birth and a slave not said here		year		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»
4	is	to-infinitive · perfect	honour not said here			by birth and a slave	tree rules

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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