Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 64
THE DOLPHINS and Whales waged a fierce war with each other.
Who acts: DOLPHINS · What happens: wage · To what, where: fierce war
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 (DOLPHINS), 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 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 DOLPHINS | det |
| 2 | DOLPHINS | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 waged | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Whales | cc |
| 4 | Whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 DOLPHINS | conj |
| 5 | waged | wage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 war | det |
| 7 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 war | amod |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waged | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 each | case |
| 10 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 5 waged | obl |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 each | fixed |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wage | past | the DOLPHINS and Whales | a fierce war | with each | 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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