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title: A WAYFARING MAN, traveling in the desert, met a woman standing alone… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A WAYFARING MAN, traveling in the desert, met a woman standing alone and terribly dejected. Who acts: WAYFARING MAN, woman. 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 37

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A WAYFARING MAN, traveling in the desert, met a woman standing alone and terribly dejected.

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**Who acts:** WAYFARING MAN, woman · **What happens:** travel, meet, stand, deject · **To what, where:** desert, woman

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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 (WAYFARING MAN, woman), 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:pg21:15:37
# text = A WAYFARING MAN, traveling in the desert, met a woman standing alone and terribly dejected.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	WAYFARING	wayfaring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	MAN	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	traveling	travel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	dejected	deject	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | gerund | a WAYFARING MAN *not said here* |  |  | the desert |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desert=Trajectory |
| 2 | **meet** | past | a WAYFARING MAN | a woman |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | a woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **deject** | participle | a woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | terribly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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