The Aesop for Children, The Lion's Share, sentence 1
A long time ago, the Lion, the Fox, the Jackal, and the Wolf agreed to go hunting together, sharing with each other whatever they found.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: agree, go, hunt, share, find · To what, where: whatever
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion's Share. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 agreed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 time | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lion | det |
| 7 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 agreed | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Fox | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Fox | det |
| 10 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Lion | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Jackal | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Jackal | det |
| 13 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Lion | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 agreed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 agreed | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Wolf | det |
| 17 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 agreed | nsubj |
| 18 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 agreed | xcomp |
| 21 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 go | xcomp |
| 22 | together | together | ADV | _ | 21 hunting | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sharing | punct |
| 24 | sharing | share | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 hunting | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 each | case |
| 26 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 24 sharing | obl |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 each | fixed |
| 28 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 sharing | obj |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 found | nsubj |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the Lion and the Jackal | time | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Lion and the Jackal not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hunt | gerund | the Lion and the Jackal not said here | together property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | share | gerund | the Lion and the Jackal not said here | whatever | with each | tree rules | |||
| 5 | find | past | Lion | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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: «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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