The Aesop for Children, The Wild Boar and the Fox, sentence 9
_Preparedness for war is the best guarantee of peace.
Who acts: Preparedness · What happens: be · To what, where: best guarantee
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wild Boar and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Preparedness), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Preparedness | punct |
| 2 | Preparedness | preparedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 guarantee | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 war | case |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Preparedness | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 guarantee | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 guarantee | det |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 guarantee | amod |
| 8 | guarantee | guarantee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 peace | case |
| 10 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 guarantee | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 guarantee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Preparedness for war | the best guarantee | of peace | 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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