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title: A YOUNG MAN, a great spendthrift, had run through all his patrimony… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A YOUNG MAN, a great spendthrift, had run through all his patrimony and had but one good cloak left. Who acts: YOUNG MAN, one good cloak. 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 2

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A YOUNG MAN, a great spendthrift, had run through all his patrimony and had but one good cloak left.

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**Who acts:** YOUNG MAN, one good cloak · **What happens:** run, have, leave · **To what, where:** patrimony

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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 (YOUNG MAN, one good cloak), 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:pg21:14:2
# text = A YOUNG MAN, a great spendthrift, had run through all his patrimony and had but one good cloak left.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	YOUNG	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	MAN	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	spendthrift	spendthrift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	patrimony	patrimony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past · perfect | a YOUNG MAN and a great spendthrift |  |  | his patrimony |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through patrimony=Trajectory |
| 2 | **have** | past | a YOUNG MAN and a great spendthrift *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leave** | participle | one good cloak |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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