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title: ALL the Goods were once driven out by the Ills from that common shar… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: ALL the Goods were once driven out by the Ills from that common share which they each had in the affairs of mankind; for the Ills by reason of their numbers had prevailed to possess the earth. Who acts: Ills, Goods. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, with
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 23

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ALL the Goods were once driven out by the Ills from that common share which they each had in the affairs of mankind; for the Ills by reason of their numbers had prevailed to possess the earth.

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**Who acts:** Ills, Goods · **What happens:** drive out, have, prevail, possess · **To what, where:** Goods, common share, affairs, reason, earth

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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 (Ills, Goods), 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:pg21:14:23
# text = ALL the Goods were once driven out by the Ills from that common share which they each had in the affairs of mankind; for the Ills by reason of their numbers had prevailed to possess the earth.
1	ALL	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
6	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Ills	ill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Ills	ill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	acl:relcl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive out** | past · passive | the Ills from that common share | all Goods |  |  |  | once *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory |
| 2 | **have** | past | Goods | that common share |  | the affairs of mankind |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 3 | **prevail** | past · perfect |  | reason *not said here* |  |  |  | of Ills's numbers | tree rules |
| 4 | **possess** | to-infinitive |  | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot earth=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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