Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 10
TWO SOLDIERS traveling together were set upon by a Robber.
Who acts: TWO SOLDIERS, Robber · What happens: travel, set · To what, where: TWO SOLDIERS
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (TWO SOLDIERS, Robber), 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 SOLDIERS | nummod |
| 2 | SOLDIERS | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 set | nsubj |
| 3 | traveling | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 SOLDIERS | acl |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 traveling | advmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | aux:pass |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 set | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Robber | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Robber | det |
| 10 | Robber | Robber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | gerund | TWO SOLDIERS not said here | together property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set | past · passive | a Robber | TWO SOLDIERS | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient subject=Result |
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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