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title: When the battle was over, the conduct of the Bats was discussed at t… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: When the battle was over, the conduct of the Bats was discussed at the peace conference. Who acts: battle. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat, sentence 13

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When the battle was over, the conduct of the Bats was discussed at the peace conference.

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**Who acts:** battle · **What happens:** be, discuss, conduct · **To what, where:** conduct, peace conference, Bats

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (battle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:45:13
# text = When the battle was over, the conduct of the Bats was discussed at the peace conference.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	discussed	discuss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	conference	conference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the battle |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **discuss** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | the conduct of the Bats |  | the peace conference |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **conduct** |  |  | the Bats |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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