Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 48
AN EAGLE stayed his flight and entreated a Lion to make an alliance with him to their mutual advantage.
Who acts: AN EAGLE · What happens: stay, entreat, make · To what, where: flight, Lion, alliance
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 (AN EAGLE), 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 | AN | an | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 EAGLE | amod |
| 2 | EAGLE | EAGLE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | nsubj |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 flight | nmod:poss |
| 5 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 entreated | cc |
| 7 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stayed | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Lion | det |
| 9 | Lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entreated | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 entreated | advcl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 alliance | det |
| 13 | alliance | alliance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 advantage | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 advantage | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mutual | mutual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 advantage | amod |
| 19 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | AN EAGLE | Eagle's flight | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme flight=Location | ||||
| 2 | entreat | past | AN EAGLE not said here | a Lion | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | AN EAGLE not said here | a alliance | with Eagle; to Lion's mutual advantage | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset alliance=Product |
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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