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title: Having secured a large booty, the Lion on their return from the fore… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Having secured a large booty, the Lion on their return from the forest asked the Ass to allot his due portion to each of the three partners in the treaty. Who acts: Lion, Ass. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 6

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Having secured a large booty, the Lion on their return from the forest asked the Ass to allot his due portion to each of the three partners in the treaty.

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**Who acts:** Lion, Ass · **What happens:** have, secure, ask, allot, return · **To what, where:** secured large booty, Ass, due portion, treaty, forest

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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 (Lion, Ass), 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:pg21:10:6
# text = Having secured a large booty, the Lion on their return from the forest asked the Ass to allot his due portion to each of the three partners in the treaty.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
2	secured	secure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	booty	booty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	allot	allot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	partners	partner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	treaty	treaty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | the Lion on Lion's return from the forest *not said here* | a secured large booty |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent booty=Patient |
| 2 | **secure** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Lion on Lion's return from the forest | the Ass |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent ass=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **allot** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Ass *not said here* | Ass's due portion |  | the treaty |  | to each *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent portion=Theme to each=Goal |
| 5 | **return** |  | Lion |  |  | the forest |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |

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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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