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title: A WASP seated himself upon the head of a Snake and, striking him unc… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A WASP seated himself upon the head of a Snake and, striking him unceasingly with his stings, wounded him to death. Who acts: WASP, Snake. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 45

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A WASP seated himself upon the head of a Snake and, striking him unceasingly with his stings, wounded him to death.

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**Who acts:** WASP, Snake · **What happens:** seat, strike, wound, sting · **To what, where:** Snake

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (WASP, Snake), 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:pg21:10:45
# text = A WASP seated himself upon the head of a Snake and, striking him unceasingly with his stings, wounded him to death.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	WASP	wasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seated	seat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	unceasingly	unceasingly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	stings	sting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	wounded	wound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | past | a WASP | Snake |  |  |  | upon the head of a Snake | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value |
| 2 | **strike** | gerund | a WASP *not said here* | Snake |  |  |  | with Snake's stings; unceasingly *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with sting=Instrument |
| 3 | **wound** | past | a WASP *not said here* | Snake |  |  |  | to death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 4 | **sting** |  | Snake |  |  |  |  |  | nom sting «state transitive»: poss=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:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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