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title: His cries for help soon brought the villagers running. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: His cries for help soon brought the villagers running. Who acts: cries, villagers, man. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Astrologer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Astrologer, sentence 7

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His cries for help soon brought the villagers running.

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**Who acts:** cries, villagers, man · **What happens:** bring, run, cry · **To what, where:** villagers

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Astrologer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cries, villagers, 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:pg19994:91:7
# text = His cries for help soon brought the villagers running.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	villagers	villager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | man's cries for help | the villagers |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent villager=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | the villagers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** |  | man |  |  |  |  | for help | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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