Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 20
But afterwards, finding her words were true, they wondered at her knowledge and deemed her to be the wisest of birds.
Who acts: finding, words, bird · What happens: find, be, wonder, deem, word · To what, where: words, knowledge, bird
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (finding, words, bird), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 finding | cc |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 4 finding | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 finding | punct |
| 4 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 true | csubj |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 words | nmod:poss |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 finding | obj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 true | cop |
| 8 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wondered | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wondered | nsubj |
| 11 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 true | parataxis |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 knowledge | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 knowledge | nmod:poss |
| 14 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wondered | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 deemed | cc |
| 16 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wondered | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 deemed | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 wisest | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 wisest | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wisest | det |
| 21 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 deemed | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 birds | case |
| 23 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wisest | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | bird's words | afterwards property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | past | finding | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | words = word | bird's knowledge | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | deem | past | words = word not said here | bird | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | of birds; wise property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | word | bird | nom word «communication 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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