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title: I know not, sir, when I got this habit of yawning, nor whether these… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: I know not, sir, when I got this habit of yawning, nor whether these attacks of howling were inflicted on me as a judgment for my crimes, or for any other cause; but this I do know, that when I yawn for the third time, I actually turn into a wolf and attack men.” Who acts: I, this, my. A sentence of
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 49

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I know not, sir, when I got this habit of yawning, nor whether these attacks of howling were inflicted on me as a judgment for my crimes, or for any other cause; but this I do know, that when I yawn for the third time, I actually turn into a wolf and attack men.”

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**Who acts:** I, this, my · **What happens:** not know, get, inflict, know, yawn, turn · **To what, where:** habit, attacks, that, wolf, howling · **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 (I, this, my), 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:pg21:11:49
# text = I know not, sir, when I got this habit of yawning, nor whether these attacks of howling were inflicted on me as a judgment for my crimes, or for any other cause; but this I do know, that when I yawn for the third time, I actually turn into a wolf and attack men.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	yawning	yawning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
16	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	attacks	attack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	howling	howling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	inflicted	inflict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	crimes	crime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
35	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	nsubj	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	obj	_	_
45	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	47	advmod	_	_
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	yawn	yawn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	ccomp	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	51	amod	_	_
51	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	conj	_	_
56	into	into	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
60	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  | sir *vocative* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **get** | past | I | this habit of yawning |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer habit=Stimulus |
| 3 | **inflict** | past · passive |  | this attacks of howling |  |  |  | on me; as a judgment for my crimes or any other cause | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | present · do-support | this | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **yawn** | present | I |  |  |  | time |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **turn** | present | I |  |  | a wolf and attack men |  | actually *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into wolf=Trajectory |
| 7 | **attack** |  |  | howling |  |  |  |  | nom attack «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **incriminate** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom crime «act 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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