Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 38
The Wasps said that they would keep guard and drive off thieves with their stings.
Who acts: Wasps · What happens: say, keep, drive off, sting · To what, where: guard, thieves · 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 (Wasps), 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 Wasps | det |
| 2 | Wasps | Wasp | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 keep | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | aux |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drive | cc |
| 10 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 drive | compound:prt |
| 12 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 drive | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 stings | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 stings | nmod:poss |
| 15 | stings | sting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 drive | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Wasps | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | keep | would | Wasps = wasp | guard | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive off | present | the Wasps not said here | thieves | with Wasps's stings | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme thief=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | sting | Wasps = wasp | nom sting «state 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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