Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 124
When peace was proclaimed, his deceitful conduct was apparent to both combatants.
Who acts: deceitful conduct, lion · What happens: proclaim, be, conduct · To what, where: peace
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 (deceitful conduct, lion), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 proclaimed | advmod |
| 2 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proclaimed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proclaimed | aux:pass |
| 4 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 apparent | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 7 | deceitful | deceitful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 conduct | amod |
| 8 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 apparent | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 apparent | cop |
| 10 | apparent | apparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 proclaimed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 combatants | case |
| 12 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 combatants | det |
| 13 | combatants | combatant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 apparent | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 proclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proclaim | past · passive | peace | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | lion's deceitful conduct | to both combatants; apparent property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | conduct | lion | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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