The Aesop for Children, The Bundle of Sticks, sentence 5
But although each one tried his best, none was able to do so.
Who acts: one, none · What happens: try, be, do · To what, where: best
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 (one, none), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 tried | cc |
| 2 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 5 tried | mark |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tried | nsubj |
| 5 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 best | nmod:poss |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 tried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 able | punct |
| 9 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 11 able | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 able | cop |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tried | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | xcomp |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 do | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | each one | discord's best | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | past | none | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | none not said here | vn act-114-1 «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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