--- title: A wild-boar Hunter, seeing her distress, stood at a distance and sai… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: A wild-boar Hunter, seeing her distress, stood at a distance and said to her, “Think how many men there are who have reason to lament the loss of their children, whose deaths have been caused by you.” Who acts: wild boar, many men, boar. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild boar, many men, boar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg21:10:82 # text = A wild-boar Hunter, seeing her distress, stood at a distance and said to her, “Think how many men there are who have reason to lament the loss of their children, whose deaths have been caused by you.” 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 boar boar NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 5 Hunter Hunter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 distress distress NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 22 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 26 expl _ _ 26 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 29 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 lament lament VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 loss loss NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 deaths death NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 40 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 appos _ _ 43 by by ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | gerund | a wild boar *not said here* | boar's distress | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer distress=Stimulus | | 2 | **stand** | past | a wild boar | | | | | at a distance | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a wild boar *not said here* | | boar | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **does** *in a quote* | present | many men | | | there | | | tree rules | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | present | | reason | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | | 7 | **lament** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | the loss of Bull's children | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus | | 8 | **cause** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | boar | deaths | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | | 9 | **distress** | | boar | | | | | | nom distress «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/10/81/) - next →: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/10/83/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/10/)