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title: A HALF-FAMISHED JACKDAW seated himself on a fig-tree, which had prod… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A HALF-FAMISHED JACKDAW seated himself on a fig-tree, which had produced some fruit entirely out of season, and waited in the hope that the figs would ripen. Who acts: FAMISHED JACKDAW, figs. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, with its dependency tree and
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 123

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A HALF-FAMISHED JACKDAW seated himself on a fig-tree, which had produced some fruit entirely out of season, and waited in the hope that the figs would ripen.

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**Who acts:** FAMISHED JACKDAW, figs · **What happens:** famish, seat, produce, wait, ripen · **To what, where:** Jackdaw, fig tree, hope

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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 (FAMISHED JACKDAW, figs), 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:pg21:14:123
# text = A HALF-FAMISHED JACKDAW seated himself on a fig-tree, which had produced some fruit entirely out of season, and waited in the hope that the figs would ripen.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	HALF	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	FAMISHED	famish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	JACKDAW	JACKDAW	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	seated	seat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	fig	fig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	produced	produce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	ripen	ripen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	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 |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seat** | past | a FAMISHED JACKDAW | Jackdaw |  | a fig tree |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value |
| 3 | **produce** | past · perfect · passive |  | a fig tree |  |  | season | entirely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wait** | past | a FAMISHED JACKDAW *not said here* |  |  | the hope |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hope=Location |
| 5 | **ripen** | would | the figs |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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