Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 101

THE NORTH WIND and the Sun disputed as to which was the most powerful, and agreed that he should be declared the victor who could first strip a wayfaring man of his clothes.

Who acts: NORTH WIND, victor · What happens: dispute, be, agree, declare, strip · To what, where: space, wayfaring man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (NORTH WIND, victor), 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	3 WIND	det
2	NORTH	north	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 WIND	amod
3	WIND	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 disputed	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Sun	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 WIND	conj
7	disputed	dispute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 powerful	mark
9	to	to	ADP	_	8 as	fixed
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 powerful	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 powerful	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 powerful	det
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 powerful	advmod
14	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 disputed	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 agreed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 agreed	cc
17	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 disputed	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 declared	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 declared	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 declared	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 declared	aux:pass
22	declared	declare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 agreed	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 victor	det
24	victor	victor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 declared	obj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 strip	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 strip	aux
27	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 strip	advmod
28	strip	strip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 victor	acl:relcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 man	det
30	wayfaring	wayfaring	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 man	compound
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 strip	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 clothes	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 clothes	nmod:poss
34	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	31 man	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 disputed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dispute	past	the NORTH WIND and the Sun			vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past			powerful property	tree rules
3	agree speech: agree	past	the NORTH WIND and the Sun not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	declare speech: other	should · passive		space		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme victor=Attribute
5	strip	could	the victor	a wayfaring man of space's clothes	first property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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: «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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