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title: On his replying that he supposed it would be the prow, the Man said,… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: On his replying that he supposed it would be the prow, the Man said, “Death would not be grievous to me, if I could only see my Enemy die before me.” Who acts: pilot, replying, Man, Death. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, with its dependency tree and th
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 74

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On his replying that he supposed it would be the prow, the Man said, “Death would not be grievous to me, if I could only see my Enemy die before me.”

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**Who acts:** pilot, replying, Man, Death · **What happens:** reply, suppose, be, say, not be, see · **To what, where:** vessel, prow, Man, Enemy die · **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 (pilot, replying, Man, Death), 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:pg21:13:74
# text = On his replying that he supposed it would be the prow, the Man said, “Death would not be grievous to me, if I could only see my Enemy die before me.”
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
3	replying	reply	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	prow	prow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	grievous	grievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	Enemy	enemy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	die	die	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	before	before	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **suppose** | past | pilot | vessel |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | would | replying |  |  | pilot's prow |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | would | Death |  | the Man *= man* |  |  | grievous *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | could | the Man *= man* | my Enemy die |  |  | before the Man *= man* |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer die=Stimulus |

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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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