Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 14
A GREAT CITY was besieged, and its inhabitants were called together to consider the best means of protecting it from the enemy.
What happens: besiege, call together, consider, mean, protect · To what, where: GREAT CITY, inhabitants, best, CITY · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 CITY | det |
| 2 | GREAT | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 CITY | amod |
| 3 | CITY | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 besieged | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 besieged | aux:pass |
| 5 | besieged | besiege | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 means | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 called | cc |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 inhabitants | nmod:poss |
| 9 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 called | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | aux:pass |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 besieged | parataxis |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 called | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 consider | mark |
| 14 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 called | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 best | det |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 consider | obj |
| 17 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 protecting | mark |
| 19 | protecting | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 means | ccomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 protecting | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 enemy | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 enemy | det |
| 23 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 protecting | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | besiege | past · passive | a GREAT CITY | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call together speech: assert | past · passive | CITY's inhabitants | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | consider | to-infinitive | the best | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent good=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | protect | gerund | CITY | from the enemy | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from enemy=Theme |
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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