Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 66
One of the Dolphins replied, “We would far rather be destroyed in our battle with each other than admit any interference from you in our affairs.”
Who acts: One, our · What happens: reply, destroy, admit, battle · To what, where: We, battle, interference, affairs · 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 (One, our), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Dolphins | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Dolphins | det |
| 4 | Dolphins | Dolphin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 destroyed | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 destroyed | punct |
| 8 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 destroyed | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 destroyed | aux |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 rather | advmod |
| 11 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 13 destroyed | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 13 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 battle | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 battle | nmod:poss |
| 16 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 destroyed | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 each | case |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 battle | nmod |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 each | fixed |
| 20 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 21 admit | mark |
| 21 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 destroyed | advcl |
| 22 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 interference | det |
| 23 | interference | interference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 admit | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 admit | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 affairs | case |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 affairs | nmod:poss |
| 28 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 admit | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | One | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | destroy in a quote | would · passive | We | our battle with each | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | admit speech: other in a quote | infinitive | any interference | our affairs | from you | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent interference=Theme in affair=Location | |||
| 4 | battle in a quote | our | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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