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title: A Countryman chanced to see the unequal combat. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Countryman chanced to see the unequal combat. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Serpent and the Eagle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Serpent and the Eagle, sentence 5

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A Countryman chanced to see the unequal combat.

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**What happens:** chance, see · **To what, where:** Countryman, unequal combat

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Serpent and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg19994:96:5
# text = A Countryman chanced to see the unequal combat.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Countryman	countryman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	chanced	chance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	unequal	unequal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	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 | **chance** | participle |  | a Countryman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | the unequal combat |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer combat=Stimulus |

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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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