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title: Then of course you often visit Piraeus." — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Then of course you often visit Piraeus." Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Monkey and the Dolphin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Dolphin, sentence 12

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Then of course you often visit Piraeus."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** visit · **To what, where:** Piraeus

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Monkey and the Dolphin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg19994:61:12
# text = Then of course you often visit Piraeus."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	6	advmod	_	_
3	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	fixed	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	visit	visit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Piraeus	Piraeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | present | you | Piraeus |  |  | then | often *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piraeus=Co-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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