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title: A TRUMPETER, bravely leading on the soldiers, was captured by the en… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A TRUMPETER, bravely leading on the soldiers, was captured by the enemy. Who acts: TRUMPETER, enemy. 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 9

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A TRUMPETER, bravely leading on the soldiers, was captured by the enemy.

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**Who acts:** TRUMPETER, enemy · **What happens:** lead, capture · **To what, where:** soldiers, TRUMPETER

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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 (TRUMPETER, enemy), 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:pg21:14:9
# text = A TRUMPETER, bravely leading on the soldiers, was captured by the enemy.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	TRUMPETER	trumpeter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	captured	capture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | gerund | a TRUMPETER *not said here* |  |  | the soldiers |  | bravely *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on soldier=Destination |
| 2 | **capture** | past · passive | the enemy | a TRUMPETER |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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