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title: SOME DOGS famished with hunger saw a number of cowhides steeping in… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: SOME DOGS famished with hunger saw a number of cowhides steeping in a river. Who acts: SOME DOGS, cowhides. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 119

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SOME DOGS famished with hunger saw a number of cowhides steeping in a river.

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**Who acts:** SOME DOGS, cowhides · **What happens:** famish, see, steep · **To what, where:** SOME DOGS, number

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SOME DOGS, cowhides), 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:pg21:14:119
# text = SOME DOGS famished with hunger saw a number of cowhides steeping in a river.
1	SOME	some	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	DOGS	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	famished	famish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	cowhides	cowhide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	steeping	steep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **famish** | participle |  | SOME DOGS *not said here* |  |  |  | with hunger | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | SOME DOGS | a number of cowhides |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus |
| 3 | **steep** | gerund | cowhides *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in a river | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in river=Instrument |

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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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