The Aesop for Children, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat, sentence 1
The Birds and the Beasts declared war against each other.
Who acts: Birds · What happens: declare · To what, where: war
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Birds), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Birds | det |
| 2 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 declared | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 Birds | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Beasts | det |
| 5 | Beasts | Beast | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 declared | nsubj |
| 6 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 declared | obj |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 each | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 6 declared | obl |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 each | fixed |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | the Birds | war | against each | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute |
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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