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title: The Horse chose his earliest years and gave them his own attributes:… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Horse chose his earliest years and gave them his own attributes: hence every man is in his youth impetuous, headstrong, and obstinate in maintaining his own opinion. Who acts: Horse, man. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, with its dependency tree and 
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 127

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The Horse chose his earliest years and gave them his own attributes: hence every man is in his youth impetuous, headstrong, and obstinate in maintaining his own opinion.

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**Who acts:** Horse, man · **What happens:** choose, give, attribute, be, maintain, opine · **To what, where:** Horse, own, youth, own opinion

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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, man), 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:pg21:11:127
# text = The Horse chose his earliest years and gave them his own attributes: hence every man is in his youth impetuous, headstrong, and obstinate in maintaining his own opinion.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
12	attributes	attribute	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
14	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
21	impetuous	impetuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	headstrong	headstrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	obstinate	obstinate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
27	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	maintaining	maintain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **choose** | past | the Horse |  |  |  | year |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | past | the Horse *not said here* |  | Horse |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **attribute** | present |  | man's own |  |  |  | hence *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | every man |  |  | man's youth |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **maintain** | gerund | every man *not said here* | man's own opinion |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme |
| 6 | **opine** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition 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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