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title: That leap was so great, he said, that no other man could leap anywhe… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: That leap was so great, he said, that no other man could leap anywhere near the distance. Who acts: leap, man, other man. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Leap At Rhodes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Leap At Rhodes, sentence 3

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That leap was so great, he said, that no other man could leap anywhere near the distance.

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**Who acts:** leap, man, other man · **What happens:** be, say, leap · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Leap At Rhodes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leap, man, other man), 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:pg19994:40:3
# text = That leap was so great, he said, that no other man could leap anywhere near the distance.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	leap	leap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
16	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
17	near	near	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | that leap |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **leap** | could | no other man |  |  |  |  | near the distance; anywhere *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near distance=Trajectory |

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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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