The Aesop for Children, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet, sentence 7

Such evidence did not help Judge Hornet to any decision, so he adjourned court for six weeks to give him time to think it over.

Who acts: Such evidence, evidence · What happens: not help, judge, adjourn, give, think over · To what, where: Hornet, court, evidence

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 (Such evidence, evidence), 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	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 evidence	amod
2	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 help	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 help	advmod
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 help	xcomp
7	Hornet	hornet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Judge	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 decision	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 decision	det
10	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Judge	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 adjourned	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 adjourned	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 adjourned	nsubj
14	adjourned	adjourn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 help	parataxis
15	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 adjourned	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 weeks	case
17	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 weeks	nummod
18	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 adjourned	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 give	mark
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 adjourned	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 think	mark
24	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 time	acl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 think	obj
26	over	over	ADP	_	24 think	compound:prt
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not help	past · do-support	Such evidence					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	judge not said to happen	infinitive	Such evidence not said here	Hornet			to any decision	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent hornet=Value
3	adjourn	past	evidence	court		week		tree rules
4	give	to-infinitive	evidence not said here		evidence	time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	think over speech: other	to-infinitive	evidence not said here	court				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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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