Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 36
War was again proclaimed, however, and when the trumpet summoned him to his standard, the Soldier put on his charger its military trappings, and mounted, being clad in his heavy coat of mail.
Who acts: trumpet, Soldier, heavy coat · What happens: proclaim, summon, put, mount, clad · To what, where: War, SOLDIER, charger
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trumpet, Soldier, heavy coat), 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 | War | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proclaimed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proclaimed | aux:pass |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 proclaimed | advmod |
| 4 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 4 proclaimed | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 put | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 summoned | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 trumpet | det |
| 11 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 summoned | nsubj |
| 12 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 put | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 summoned | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 standard | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 standard | nmod:poss |
| 16 | standard | standard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 summoned | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 summoned | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Soldier | det |
| 19 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 put | nsubj |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proclaimed | parataxis |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 charger | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 charger | nmod:poss |
| 23 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 trappings | nmod:poss |
| 25 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 trappings | amod |
| 26 | trappings | trapping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 charger | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 mounted | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 mounted | cc |
| 29 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 put | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 clad | punct |
| 31 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 clad | aux:pass |
| 32 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 mounted | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 coat | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 coat | nmod:poss |
| 35 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 coat | amod |
| 36 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 clad | obl:agent |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 mail | case |
| 38 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 coat | nmod | ||
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 proclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proclaim | past · passive | War | again | however property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | summon | past | the trumpet | SOLDIER | to SOLDIER's standard | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | put | past | the Soldier | SOLDIER's charger trumpet's military trappings | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on charger=Destination | ||||
| 4 | mount | participle | the Soldier not said here | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | clad | gerund · passive | SOLDIER's heavy coat of mail | tree rules |
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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