The Aesop for Children, The Bundle of Sticks, sentence 1
A certain Father had a family of Sons, who were forever quarreling among themselves.
Who acts: certain Father, Sons · What happens: have, quarrel · To what, where: family
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bundle of Sticks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain Father, Sons), 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 Father | det |
| 2 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Father | amod |
| 3 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 family | det |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Sons | case |
| 8 | Sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 family | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 quarreling | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 quarreling | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 quarreling | aux |
| 12 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 13 quarreling | advmod |
| 13 | quarreling | quarrel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 Sons | acl |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 themselves | case |
| 15 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 quarreling | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a certain Father | a family of Sons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Patient | ||||
| 2 | quarrel | past · progressive | Sons | among Sons = son; forever property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: 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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