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title: They entreated Jupiter that they might no longer be associated with… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: They entreated Jupiter that they might no longer be associated with the Ills, as they had nothing in common and could not live together, but were engaged in unceasing warfare; and that an indissoluble law might be laid down for their future protection. Who acts: Goods. A sentence of «Three hundred A
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 25

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They entreated Jupiter that they might no longer be associated with the Ills, as they had nothing in common and could not live together, but were engaged in unceasing warfare; and that an indissoluble law might be laid down for their future protection.

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**Who acts:** Goods · **What happens:** entreat, associate, have, not live together, engage, lay down · **To what, where:** Jupiter, Goods, nothing, common, unceasing warfare, indissoluble law

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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:pg21:14:25
# text = They entreated Jupiter that they might no longer be associated with the Ills, as they had nothing in common and could not live together, but were engaged in unceasing warfare; and that an indissoluble law might be laid down for their future protection.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	entreated	entreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	no	no	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	associated	associate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Ills	ill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
25	together	together	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	unceasing	unceasing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	warfare	warfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	indissoluble	indissoluble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
42	down	down	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
45	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entreat** | past | Goods |  | Jupiter |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jupiter=Recipient |
| 2 | **associate** | might · passive |  | Goods |  |  |  | with the Ills; long *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with ill=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **have** | past | Goods | nothing |  | common |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **live together** | could | Goods *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **engage** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | in unceasing warfare *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: in warfare=Goal |
| 6 | **lay down** | might · passive |  | a indissoluble law |  |  |  | for Goods's future protection | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for protection=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **protect** |  | Goods |  |  |  |  |  | nom protection «act transitive»: poss=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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