Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 123
A Bat, fearing the uncertain issues of the fight, always fought on the side which he felt was the strongest.
Who acts: Bat, side · What happens: fear, fight, feel, be, issue · To what, where: uncertain issues, side, fight
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 (Bat, side), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Bat | det |
| 2 | Bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 strongest | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fearing | punct |
| 4 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Bat | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 issues | det |
| 6 | uncertain | uncertain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 issues | amod |
| 7 | issues | issue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fearing | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fight | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fight | det |
| 10 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 issues | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fought | punct |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 fought | advmod |
| 13 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 issues | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 side | det |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fought | obl |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 felt | nsubj |
| 19 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 side | acl:relcl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 strongest | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 strongest | det |
| 22 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 strongest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | gerund | a Bat not said here | the uncertain issues of the fight | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer issue=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fight | participle | the uncertain issues of the fight not said here | the side | always property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | feel | past | the side | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | past | a Bat | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | issue | the fight | nom issue «cognition transitive»: of=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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