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title: A JACKDAW, seeing some Doves in a cote abundantly provided with food… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A JACKDAW, seeing some Doves in a cote abundantly provided with food, painted himself white and joined them in order to share their plentiful maintenance. Who acts: JACKDAW. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 103

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A JACKDAW, seeing some Doves in a cote abundantly provided with food, painted himself white and joined them in order to share their plentiful maintenance.

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**Who acts:** JACKDAW · **What happens:** see, provide, paint, join, share, maintain · **To what, where:** Doves, cote, man, order, plentiful maintenance

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (JACKDAW), 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:pg21:11:103
# text = A JACKDAW, seeing some Doves in a cote abundantly provided with food, painted himself white and joined them in order to share their plentiful maintenance.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	JACKDAW	jackdaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	Doves	Dove	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cote	cote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	abundantly	abundantly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	maintenance	maintenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | a JACKDAW *not said here* | some Doves |  | a cote |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dove=Stimulus |
| 2 | **provide** | past | a JACKDAW |  |  |  |  | with food; abundantly *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with food=Theme |
| 3 | **paint** | past | a JACKDAW *not said here* | man |  |  |  | white *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Destination |
| 4 | **join** | past | a JACKDAW *not said here* | Doves *= dove* |  | order |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **share** | to-infinitive | a JACKDAW *not said here* | Jackdaw's plentiful maintenance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **maintain** |  | Jackdaw |  |  |  |  |  | nom maintenance «act 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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