Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 98

They therefore chose as leaders Mice that were most renowned for their family descent, strength, and counsel, as well as those most noted for their courage in the fight, so that they might be better marshaled in battle array and formed into troops, regiments, and battalions.

Who acts: Mice · What happens: choose, renown, note, be, marshal, form · To what, where: counsel, leaders Mice, those, battle array, troops

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 (Mice), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chose	nsubj
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 chose	advmod
3	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 Mice	case
5	leaders	leader	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Mice	compound
6	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chose	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 renowned	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 renowned	aux:pass
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 renowned	advmod
10	renowned	renown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Mice	acl:relcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 descent	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 descent	nmod:poss
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 descent	compound
14	descent	descent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 renowned	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 strength	punct
16	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 descent	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 counsel	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 counsel	cc
19	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chose	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 noted	punct
21	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	26 noted	cc
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 as	fixed
23	as	as	ADP	_	21 as	fixed
24	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 noted	nsubj:pass
25	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	26 noted	advmod
26	noted	note	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chose	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 courage	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 courage	nmod:poss
29	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 noted	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 fight	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fight	det
32	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 courage	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 better	punct
34	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	39 better	mark
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 so	fixed
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 better	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 better	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 better	cop
39	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 noted	parataxis
40	marshaled	marshal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 better	csubj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 array	case
42	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 array	compound
43	array	array	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 marshaled	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 formed	cc
45	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 marshaled	conj
46	into	into	ADP	_	47 troops	case
47	troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	45 formed	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 regiments	punct
49	regiments	regiment	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 troops	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 battalions	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 battalions	cc
52	battalions	battalion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chose	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	choose	past	Mice = mouse	counsel		as leaders Mice; battalions obl; therefore property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	renown	past · passive		leaders Mice		for Mice's family descent and strength	tree rules
3	note	participle · passive		those		for Mice's courage in the fight	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
4	is	might	Mice = mouse			good property	tree rules
5	marshal	participle			battle array		tree rules
6	form	participle			troops and regiments		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	descend		Mice = mouse				nom descent «event intransitive»: 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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