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title: A SAILOR, bound on a long voyage, took with him a Monkey to amuse hi… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A SAILOR, bound on a long voyage, took with him a Monkey to amuse him while on shipboard. Who acts: SAILOR. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 87

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A SAILOR, bound on a long voyage, took with him a Monkey to amuse him while on shipboard.

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**Who acts:** SAILOR · **What happens:** bind, take, amuse · **To what, where:** SAILOR, long voyage, Monkey, favour

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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 (SAILOR), 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:pg21:11:87
# text = A SAILOR, bound on a long voyage, took with him a Monkey to amuse him while on shipboard.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	SAILOR	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	amuse	amuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	shipboard	shipboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bind** | participle |  | a SAILOR *not said here* |  | a long voyage |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | past | a SAILOR |  | a Monkey |  |  | with favour | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument monkey=Destination |
| 3 | **amuse** | to-infinitive | a SAILOR *not said here* | favour |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |

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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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