Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 71
TWO MEN, deadly enemies to each other, were sailing in the same vessel.
Who acts: TWO MEN · What happens: sail · To what, where: same vessel
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 (TWO MEN), 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 | TWO | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 MEN | nummod |
| 2 | MEN | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sailing | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 enemies | punct |
| 4 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 enemies | amod |
| 5 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 MEN | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 each | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 enemies | nmod |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | fixed |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 MEN | punct |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sailing | aux |
| 11 | sailing | sail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 vessel | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 vessel | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 vessel | amod |
| 15 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sailing | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sailing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past · progressive | TWO MEN and deadly enemies to each | the same vessel | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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