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title: The Partridges declared that they would dig around his vines and mak… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Partridges declared that they would dig around his vines and make them produce finer grapes. Who acts: Partridges. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 37

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The Partridges declared that they would dig around his vines and make them produce finer grapes.

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**Who acts:** Partridges · **What happens:** declare, dig, make, produce · **To what, where:** vines, Partridges, finer grapes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Partridges), 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:pg21:13:37
# text = The Partridges declared that they would dig around his vines and make them produce finer grapes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Partridges	partridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	vines	vine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	produce	produce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	finer	fine	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the Partridges |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **dig** | would | Partridges *= partridge* |  |  | Farmer's vines |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent around vine=Location |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | Partridges *= partridge* *not said here* | Partridges *= partridge* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **produce** | infinitive | Partridges *= partridge* *not said here* | finer grapes |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grape=Result |

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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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