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title: “All these monuments which you see,” said the Monkey, “are erected i… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: “All these monuments which you see,” said the Monkey, “are erected in honour of my ancestors, who were in their day freedmen and citizens of great renown.” Who acts: you, Monkey, ancestors. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, with its dependency tree and th
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 112

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“All these monuments which you see,” said the Monkey, “are erected in honour of my ancestors, who were in their day freedmen and citizens of great renown.”

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**Who acts:** you, Monkey, ancestors · **What happens:** see, say, erect, be, honour · **To what, where:** monuments, honour, day freedmen, ancestors · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, Monkey, ancestors), 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:pg21:11:112
# text = “All these monuments which you see,” said the Monkey, “are erected in honour of my ancestors, who were in their day freedmen and citizens of great renown.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	monuments	monument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	erected	erect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	freedmen	freedman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	citizens	citizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	renown	renown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present | you | all monuments |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Monkey |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **erect** *in a quote* | present · passive |  |  |  | honour of my ancestors and Monkey's day freedmen and citizens of great renown |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | my ancestors and Monkey's day freedmen and citizens of great renown |  |  | Monkey's day freedmen |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **honour** *in a quote* |  |  | my ancestors and Monkey's day freedmen and citizens of great renown |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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