Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 65

When the battle was at its height, a Sprat lifted its head out of the waves and said that he would reconcile their differences if they would accept him as an umpire.

Who acts: battle, Sprat, differences · What happens: be, lift, say, reconcile, accept · To what, where: height, head, waves, differences, Sprat · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (battle, Sprat, differences), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg21:486): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 height	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 battle	det
3	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 height	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 height	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 height	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 height	nmod:poss
7	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lifted	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 height	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Sprat	det
10	Sprat	Sprat	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 lifted	nsubj
11	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lifted	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 waves	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 waves	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 waves	det
17	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lifted	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lifted	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 reconcile	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 reconcile	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 reconcile	aux
23	reconcile	reconcile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 differences	nmod:poss
25	differences	difference	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 reconcile	obj
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 accept	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 accept	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 accept	aux
29	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 reconcile	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 accept	obj
31	as	as	ADP	_	33 umpire	case
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 umpire	det
33	umpire	umpire	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 accept	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the battle		battle's height		tree rules
2	lift	past	a Sprat	battle's head	the waves		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme out wave=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	a Sprat not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	reconcile	would	Sprat	waves's differences			tree rules
5	accept a condition, not said to happen	would	differences = difference	Sprat		as a umpire	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Theme as umpire=Attribute

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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