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description: They say that Jupiter punished him so, because he was such a lazy stay-at-home that he would not go to Jupiter's wedding, even when especially invited. Who acts: They, Jupiter, Tortoise, home. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Tortoise and the Ducks, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Aesop for Children, The Tortoise and the Ducks, sentence 3

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They say that Jupiter punished him so, because he was such a lazy stay-at-home that he would not go to Jupiter's wedding, even when especially invited.

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**Who acts:** They, Jupiter, Tortoise, home · **What happens:** say, punish, be, not go, invite, wed · **To what, where:** Tortoise, home, wedding · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Tortoise and the Ducks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (They, Jupiter, Tortoise, home), 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:pg19994:4:3
# text = They say that Jupiter punished him so, because he was such a lazy stay-at-home that he would not go to Jupiter's wedding, even when especially invited.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	punished	punish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
12	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	15	det:predet	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	stay	stay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	even	even	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
32	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **punish** | past | Jupiter | Tortoise |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | Tortoise |  |  | home |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **go** | would | home |  |  | Jupiter's wedding |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wedding=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **invite** | participle | home *not said here* |  |  |  |  | especially *property* | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **wed** |  | Jupiter |  |  |  |  |  | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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