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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 9

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He ordered at the same time that all the Apes be arranged in a long row on his right hand and on his left, and that a throne be placed for him, as was the custom among men.

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**Who acts:** other · **What happens:** order, arrange, place, be · **To what, where:** Apes, long row, throne

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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 (other), 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:pg21:12:9
# text = He ordered at the same time that all the Apes be arranged in a long row on his right hand and on his left, and that a throne be placed for him, as was the custom among men.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Apes	ape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
39	among	among	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | other |  |  |  | time |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **arrange** | infinitive · passive |  | all Apes |  | a long row on other's right hand and other's left |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme that=Destination |
| 3 | **place** | infinitive · passive |  | a throne |  |  |  | for other | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as the custom; among men | tree rules |

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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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