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title: I admit that I have been very greedy and have devoured many sheep. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: I admit that I have been very greedy and have devoured many sheep. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Animals and the Plague, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 10

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I admit that I have been very greedy and have devoured many sheep.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** admit, be, devour · **To what, where:** many sheep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Animals and the Plague. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg19994:125:10
# text = I admit that I have been very greedy and have devoured many sheep.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	admit	admit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **admit** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | greedy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **devour** | present · perfect | I *not said here* | many sheep |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=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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