Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 9
A TRUMPETER, bravely leading on the soldiers, was captured by the enemy.
Who acts: TRUMPETER, enemy · What happens: lead, capture · To what, where: soldiers, TRUMPETER
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 (TRUMPETER, enemy), 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 TRUMPETER | det |
| 2 | TRUMPETER | trumpeter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 captured | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 leading | punct |
| 4 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 5 leading | advmod |
| 5 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 TRUMPETER | acl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 soldiers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 soldiers | det |
| 8 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 leading | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 TRUMPETER | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 captured | aux:pass |
| 11 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 enemy | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 enemy | det |
| 14 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 captured | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 captured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | gerund | a TRUMPETER not said here | the soldiers | bravely property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on soldier=Destination | |||
| 2 | capture | past · passive | the enemy | a TRUMPETER | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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