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description: Such evidence did not help Judge Hornet to any decision, so he adjourned court for six weeks to give him time to think it over. Who acts: Such evidence, evidence. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Aesop for Children, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet, sentence 7

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Such evidence did not help Judge Hornet to any decision, so he adjourned court for six weeks to give him time to think it over.

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**Who acts:** Such evidence, evidence · **What happens:** not help, judge, adjourn, give, think over · **To what, where:** Hornet, court, evidence

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such evidence, evidence), 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:pg19994:129:7
# text = Such evidence did not help Judge Hornet to any decision, so he adjourned court for six weeks to give him time to think it over.
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
7	Hornet	hornet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	adjourned	adjourn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **help** | past · do-support | Such evidence |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **judge** *not said to happen* | infinitive | Such evidence *not said here* | Hornet |  |  |  | to any decision | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent hornet=Value |
| 3 | **adjourn** | past | evidence | court |  |  | week |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | evidence *not said here* |  | evidence |  | time |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **think over** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | evidence *not said here* | court |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

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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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