Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 99

When all this was done, and the army disciplined, and the herald Mouse had duly proclaimed war by challenging the Weasels, the newly chosen generals bound their heads with straws, that they might be more conspicuous to all their troops.

Who acts: army, chosen generals, Mice · What happens: do, discipline, proclaim, challenge, choose, bound · To what, where: this, herald, Weasels, heads

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 (army, chosen generals, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 done	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 done	det:predet
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 done	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux:pass
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 disciplined	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 disciplined	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 army	det
9	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 disciplined	nsubj
10	disciplined	discipline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 done	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 proclaimed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 proclaimed	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 herald	det
14	herald	herald	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 proclaimed	nsubj:pass
15	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 herald	appos
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 proclaimed	aux
17	duly	duly	ADV	_	18 proclaimed	advmod
18	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 done	parataxis
19	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 proclaimed	obj
20	by	by	SCONJ	_	21 challenging	mark
21	challenging	challenge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 proclaimed	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Weasels	det
23	Weasels	weasel	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 challenging	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bound	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 generals	det
26	newly	newly	ADV	_	27 chosen	advmod
27	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 generals	amod
28	generals	general	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bound	nsubj
29	bound	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 proclaimed	parataxis
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 heads	nmod:poss
31	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bound	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 straws	case
33	straws	straw	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 bound	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 conspicuous	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 conspicuous	mark
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 conspicuous	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 conspicuous	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 conspicuous	cop
39	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 conspicuous	advmod
40	conspicuous	conspicuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bound	conj
41	to	to	ADP	_	44 troops	case
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 troops	det:predet
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 troops	nmod:poss
44	troops	troops	NOUN	Number=Ptan	40 conspicuous	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		this		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	discipline	past	the army			tree rules
3	proclaim	past · perfect · passive		the herald	duly property	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme war=Attribute
4	challenge	gerund		the Weasels		tree rules
5	choose	participle			newly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	bound	present	the chosen generals	Mice's heads	with straws	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location head=Theme
7	is	might	Mice = mouse		to Mice's troops; conspicuous property	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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