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title: The Doves, as long as he was silent, supposed him to be one of thems… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Doves, as long as he was silent, supposed him to be one of themselves and admitted him to their cote. Who acts: man, Doves. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 104

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The Doves, as long as he was silent, supposed him to be one of themselves and admitted him to their cote.

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**Who acts:** man, Doves · **What happens:** be, suppose, admit · **To what, where:** man, one, cote

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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 (man, Doves), 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:pg21:11:104
# text = The Doves, as long as he was silent, supposed him to be one of themselves and admitted him to their cote.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Doves	Dove	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	xcomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	admitted	admit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	cote	cote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | man |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **suppose** | past | the Doves | man |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the Doves *not said here* | one |  |  |  | of Doves *= dove* | tree rules |
| 4 | **admit** *speech: other* | past | the Doves *not said here* | man | Doves's cote |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to cote=Recipient |

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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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