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title: The Ox took under his patronage the next term of life, and therefore… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Ox took under his patronage the next term of life, and therefore man in his middle age is fond of work, devoted to labor, and resolute to amass wealth and to husband his resources. Who acts: Ox, man. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, with its dependen
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 128

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The Ox took under his patronage the next term of life, and therefore man in his middle age is fond of work, devoted to labor, and resolute to amass wealth and to husband his resources.

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**Who acts:** Ox, man · **What happens:** take, be, devote, amass, patronage, term · **To what, where:** next term, patronage, labor, wealth, 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 (Ox, 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:pg21:11:128
# text = The Ox took under his patronage the next term of life, and therefore man in his middle age is fond of work, devoted to labor, and resolute to amass wealth and to husband his resources.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	patronage	patronage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	devoted	devote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	resolute	resolute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	amass	amass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl	_	_
33	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	resources	resource	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	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 | **take** | past | the Ox | the next term of life |  | man's patronage |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | man in man's middle age |  |  |  |  | of work; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **devote** | participle | man in man's middle age *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to labor *goal* | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent to labor=Goal |
| 4 | **amass** | to-infinitive | the Ox *not said here* | wealth |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme |
| 5 | **patronage** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom patronage «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **term** |  |  | life |  |  |  |  | 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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