The Aesop for Children, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet, sentence 5

When the Judge called the case, witnesses declared that they had seen certain winged creatures in the neighborhood of the hollow tree, who hummed loudly, and whose bodies were striped, yellow and black, like Bees.

Who acts: Judge, Bees, hollow tree · What happens: call, declare, see, wing, hum, stripe · To what, where: case, certain winged creatures, neighborhood, bodies · 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, Bees, hollow tree), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 declared	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Judge	det
3	Judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 declared	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 Judge	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 case	det
6	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 witnesses	punct
8	witnesses	witness	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 case	conj
9	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 seen	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seen	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 declared	ccomp
14	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 creatures	amod
15	winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 creatures	amod
16	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seen	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 neighborhood	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 neighborhood	det
19	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 creatures	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 tree	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tree	det
22	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tree	amod
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 neighborhood	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hummed	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 hummed	nsubj
26	hummed	hum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 tree	acl:relcl
27	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	26 hummed	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 striped	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 striped	cc
30	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	31 bodies	nmod:poss
31	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 striped	nsubj:pass
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 striped	aux:pass
33	striped	stripe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 declared	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 yellow	punct
35	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 striped	parataxis
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 black	cc
37	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 yellow	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Bees	punct
39	like	like	ADP	_	40 Bees	case
40	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 striped	obl:agent
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	participle	the Judge not said here	the case and witnesses			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent case=Recipient
2	declare speech: other	past	the Judge				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	see	past · perfect	Bees = bee	certain winged creatures	the neighborhood of the hollow tree		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus
4	wing	participle					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	hum	past	the hollow tree			loudly property	vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
6	stripe	past · passive	Bees	bodies			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: «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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