The Aesop for Children, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat, sentence 9
Now the Bat family had not openly joined either side.
Who acts: Bat family · What happens: not join · To what, where: side
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 (Bat family), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 joined | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 family | det |
| 3 | Bat | Bat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 family | compound |
| 4 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 joined | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 joined | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 joined | advmod |
| 7 | openly | openly | ADV | _ | 8 joined | advmod |
| 8 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 side | det |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 joined | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not join | past · perfect | the Bat family | either side | now | openly property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=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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