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title: For this purpose, they divided the term of his life between them, an… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: For this purpose, they divided the term of his life between them, and each endowed one portion of it with the qualities which chiefly characterized himself. Who acts: Horse, qualities. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 126

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For this purpose, they divided the term of his life between them, and each endowed one portion of it with the qualities which chiefly characterized himself.

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**Who acts:** Horse, qualities · **What happens:** divide, endow, characterize, term · **To what, where:** term, one portion, man, life

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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 (Horse, qualities), 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:pg21:11:126
# text = For this purpose, they divided the term of his life between them, and each endowed one portion of it with the qualities which chiefly characterized himself.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	divided	divide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	endowed	endow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	qualities	quality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	characterized	characterize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | past | Horse | the term of man's life between animals |  |  |  | for this purpose | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Theme |
| 2 | **endow** | past | Horse *not said here* | one portion of portion |  |  |  | with the qualities | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent portion=Destination with quality=Theme |
| 3 | **characterize** | past | the qualities | man |  |  |  | chiefly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 4 | **term** |  |  | man's life between animals |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication 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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