Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 128
THE HARES waged war with the Eagles, and called upon the Foxes to help them.
Who acts: HARES · What happens: wage, call, help · To what, where: war, Hare · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (HARES), 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 HARES | det |
| 2 | HARES | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 waged | nsubj |
| 3 | waged | wage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waged | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 Eagles | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Eagles | det |
| 7 | Eagles | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 waged | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 called | cc |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 waged | parataxis |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 Foxes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Foxes | det |
| 13 | Foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 called | obl:agent |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 help | mark |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 called | advcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 help | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wage | past | the HARES | war | with the Eagles | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | participle | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | Hare | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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