The Aesop for Children, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet, sentence 16

"It is clear," said the Judge, "who made the comb and who could not have made it.

Who acts: Judge · What happens: be, say, make, not make · To what, where: comb · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Judge), 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	_	4 clear	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clear	expl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clear	cop
4	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clear	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 clear	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Judge	det
9	Judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 comb	det
15	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 made	cc
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 made	obl
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 made	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 made	advmod
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 made	aux
21	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 made	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 made	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present			clear property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Judge			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make in a quote	past		the comb		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Product
4	not make in a quote	could · perfect		comb		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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