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title: The Goods wafted themselves to heaven and asked for a righteous veng… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Goods wafted themselves to heaven and asked for a righteous vengeance on their persecutors. Who acts: Goods. 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 24

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The Goods wafted themselves to heaven and asked for a righteous vengeance on their persecutors.

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**Who acts:** Goods · **What happens:** waft, ask · **To what, where:** Goods

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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 (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:pg21:14:24
# text = The Goods wafted themselves to heaven and asked for a righteous vengeance on their persecutors.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wafted	waft	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	righteous	righteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	persecutors	persecutor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waft** | past | the Goods | Goods |  |  |  | to heaven | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Goods *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a righteous vengeance on Goods's persecutors | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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