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title: Now it was the custom among the Greeks to take their pet monkeys and… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it was the custom among the Greeks to take their pet monkeys and dogs with them whenever they went on a voyage. Who acts: shore, monkeys. 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 4

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Now it was the custom among the Greeks to take their pet monkeys and dogs with them whenever they went on a voyage.

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**Who acts:** shore, monkeys · **What happens:** be, take, go · **To what, where:** custom, pet monkeys, voyage

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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 (shore, monkeys), 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:pg19994:61:4
# text = Now it was the custom among the Greeks to take their pet monkeys and dogs with them whenever they went on a voyage.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
18	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | shore | the custom |  |  | now | among the Greeks | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive |  |  | Greeks's pet monkeys and dogs |  |  | with dogs *= dog* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument monkey=Destination |
| 3 | **go** | past | monkeys *= monkey* |  |  | a voyage |  | whenever *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on voyage=Location |

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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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