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title: The Tanner put off his departure from time to time, saying that he w… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tanner put off his departure from time to time, saying that he would leave soon. Who acts: Tanner. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 143

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The Tanner put off his departure from time to time, saying that he would leave soon.

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**Who acts:** Tanner · **What happens:** put off, say, leave, depart · **To what, where:** departure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tanner), 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:pg21:15:143
# text = The Tanner put off his departure from time to time, saying that he would leave soon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tanner	Tanner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put off** | past | the Tanner | Tanner's departure |  |  | time |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent departure=Goal |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Tanner *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **leave** | would | Tanner |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **depart** |  | Tanner |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: 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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