Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 122
THE BIRDS waged war with the Beasts, and each were by turns the conquerors.
Who acts: BIRDS, each · What happens: wage, be, turn · To what, where: war, conquerors
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 (BIRDS, each), 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 BIRDS | det |
| 2 | BIRDS | bird | 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 Beasts | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Beasts | det |
| 7 | Beasts | Beast | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 war | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turns | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turns | cc |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 turns | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 each | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 were | nsubj |
| 13 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 waged | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 conquerors | det |
| 15 | conquerors | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 turns | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wage | past | the BIRDS | war | with the Beasts | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | past | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | turn | present | each | the conquerors | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent conqueror=Theme |
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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