The Aesop for Children, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, sentence 14
_Traitors may expect treachery.
Who acts: Traitors · What happens: expect · To what, where: treachery
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Traitors), 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 Traitors | punct |
| 2 | Traitors | traitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 expect | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 expect | aux |
| 4 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expect | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | may | Traitors | treachery | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treachery=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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