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title: “I see no indication whatever of your having slaughtered a sheep, wh… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: “I see no indication whatever of your having slaughtered a sheep, while I do see very plainly every preparation for your dining on a bull.” Who acts: Bull, your. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 102

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“I see no indication whatever of your having slaughtered a sheep, while I do see very plainly every preparation for your dining on a bull.”

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**Who acts:** Bull, your · **What happens:** see, slaughter, dine · **To what, where:** indication, your, preparation

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bull, your), 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:pg21:12:102
# text = “I see no indication whatever of your having slaughtered a sheep, while I do see very plainly every preparation for your dining on a bull.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	indication	indication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	appos	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	aux	_	_
10	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	preparation	preparation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	dining	dining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present | the Bull *= bull* | no indication |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer indication=Stimulus |
| 2 | **slaughter** *in a quote* | gerund · perfect · passive |  | your |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the Bull *= bull* | every preparation |  |  |  | for your dining on a bull; plainly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer preparation=Stimulus |
| 4 | **dine** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  | on a bull | nom dining «act intransitive»: poss=agent on=obl |

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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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