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description: One inhabited a deep pond, far removed from public view; the other lived in a gully containing little water, and traversed by a country road. Who acts: One, other, gully. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 25

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One inhabited a deep pond, far removed from public view; the other lived in a gully containing little water, and traversed by a country road.

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**Who acts:** One, other, gully · **What happens:** inhabit, remove, live, contain, traverse · **To what, where:** deep pond, public view, gully, little water

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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 (One, other, gully), 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:pg21:11:25
# text = One inhabited a deep pond, far removed from public view; the other lived in a gully containing little water, and traversed by a country road.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gully	gully	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	traversed	traverse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inhabit** | past | One | a deep pond |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remove** | participle |  | a deep pond *not said here* |  | public view |  | far *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from view=Source |
| 3 | **live** | past | the other |  |  | a gully |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gully=Location |
| 4 | **contain** | gerund | a gully *not said here* | little water |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot water=Theme |
| 5 | **traverse** | participle | the other *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a country road | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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