Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 95
THE WEASELS and the Mice waged a perpetual war with each other, in which much blood was shed.
Who acts: WEASELS · What happens: wage, shed · To what, where: perpetual war, much blood
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: who acts (WEASELS), 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 WEASELS | det |
| 2 | WEASELS | weasel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 waged | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Mice | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mice | det |
| 5 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 WEASELS | conj |
| 6 | waged | wage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 war | det |
| 8 | perpetual | perpetual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 war | compound |
| 9 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waged | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 each | case |
| 11 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 6 waged | obl |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 each | fixed |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shed | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 shed | obl |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 blood | amod |
| 17 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 shed | aux:pass |
| 19 | shed | shed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 waged | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 waged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wage | past | the WEASELS and the Mice | a perpetual war | with each | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shed | past · passive | much blood | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source |
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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