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title: But the Farmer interrupted them, saying: “I have already two oxen, w… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Farmer interrupted them, saying: “I have already two oxen, who, without making any promises, do all these things. Who acts: Farmer, two oxen. 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 39

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But the Farmer interrupted them, saying: “I have already two oxen, who, without making any promises, do all these things.

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**Who acts:** Farmer, two oxen · **What happens:** interrupt, say, have, make, do · **To what, where:** Wasps, two oxen, promises, things · **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 (Farmer, two oxen), 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:pg21:13:39
# text = But the Farmer interrupted them, saying: “I have already two oxen, who, without making any promises, do all these things.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	already	already	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **interrupt** | past | the Farmer | Wasps *= wasp* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Farmer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the Farmer *= farmer* | two oxen |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Patient |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | gerund | two oxen | any promises |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Farmer *= farmer* *not said here* | all things |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

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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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