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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bees, hives), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = gutenberg:pg11339:920 # text = Before long the bees came back from gathering honey, and, finding their hives overturned and the Keeper standing by, they made for him with their stings. # source = Project Gutenberg (public domain in the USA), book id in sent_id # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18 1 Before before ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 from from SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 gathering gather VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 advcl _ _ 9 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 hives hive NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 overturned overturn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 xcomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Keeper keeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 20 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 21 by by ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 stings sting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come back** | past | the bees | | | long | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before long=Location | | 2 | **gather** | gerund | the bees *not said here* | honey | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Theme | | 3 | **find** | gerund | bees *= bee* *not said here* | bees's hives and the Keeper | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent hive=Attribute clause=Theme | | 4 | **overturn** | participle | bees's hives and the Keeper *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **stand by** | gerund | bees's hives and the Keeper *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **make** | past | bees *= bee* | | | | | for Heifer; with bees's stings | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary | | 7 | **sting** | | bees *= bee* | | | | | | nom sting «state transitive»: 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:** «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», Project Gutenberg book 11339 (public domain in the USA). **Annotation:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`mova-tales-silver-en.conllu`), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. 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