Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 121
To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.
What happens: prepare, be · To what, where: best guarantee
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 4 prepared | mark |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 prepared | aux:pass |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 prepared | advmod |
| 4 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 guarantee | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 war | case |
| 6 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prepared | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 guarantee | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 guarantee | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 guarantee | amod |
| 10 | guarantee | guarantee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 peace | case |
| 12 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 guarantee | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 guarantee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | to-infinitive · passive | for war; well property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for war=Beneficiary | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the best guarantee | of peace | 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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