The Aesop for Children, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat, sentence 14
Such deceit was unpardonable, and Birds and Beasts made common cause to drive out the Bats.
Who acts: Such deceit, Birds · What happens: be, make, drive out · To what, where: common cause, 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 (Such deceit, 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 deceit | amod |
| 2 | deceit | deceit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 unpardonable | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unpardonable | cop |
| 4 | unpardonable | unpardonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 7 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 made | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Beasts | cc |
| 9 | Beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Birds | conj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unpardonable | parataxis |
| 11 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cause | amod |
| 12 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 drive | mark |
| 14 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 drive | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Bats | det |
| 17 | Bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 drive | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unpardonable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Such deceit | unpardonable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Birds and Beasts | common cause | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Product | ||||
| 3 | drive out | to-infinitive | Birds and Beasts not said here | the Bats | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme bat=Trajectory |
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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