The Aesop for Children, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat, sentence 13
When the battle was over, the conduct of the Bats was discussed at the peace conference.
Who acts: battle · What happens: be, discuss, conduct · To what, where: conduct, peace conference, Bats
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 (battle), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 over | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 battle | det |
| 3 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 over | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 over | cop |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 discussed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 over | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 conduct | det |
| 8 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 discussed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Bats | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Bats | det |
| 11 | Bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 conduct | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 discussed | aux:pass |
| 13 | discussed | discuss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 conference | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 conference | det |
| 16 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 conference | compound |
| 17 | conference | conference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 discussed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 discussed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the battle | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | discuss speech: other | past · passive | the conduct of the Bats | the peace conference | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | conduct | the Bats | nom conduct «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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