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title: When the Dolphin arrived with his burden in sight of land not far fr… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Dolphin arrived with his burden in sight of land not far from Athens, he asked the Monkey if he were an Athenian. Who acts: Dolphin. 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 90

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When the Dolphin arrived with his burden in sight of land not far from Athens, he asked the Monkey if he were an Athenian.

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**Who acts:** Dolphin · **What happens:** arrive, ask, be, burden, sight · **To what, where:** Athens, Monkey, Athenian, sight, land

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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 (Dolphin), 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:pg21:11:90
# text = When the Dolphin arrived with his burden in sight of land not far from Athens, he asked the Monkey if he were an Athenian.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Dolphin	Dolphin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Athenian	Athenian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | the Dolphin |  |  | Athens |  | with Dolphin's burden in sight of land; far *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from athens=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Dolphin |  | the Monkey |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent monkey=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Dolphin | a Athenian |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **burden** |  | Dolphin |  |  | sight of land |  |  | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | land |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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