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title: TWO TRAVELERS, worn out by the heat of the summer’s sun, laid themse… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: TWO TRAVELERS, worn out by the heat of the summer’s sun, laid themselves down at noon under the widespreading branches of a Plane-Tree. Who acts: TWO TRAVELERS, sun. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 78

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TWO TRAVELERS, worn out by the heat of the summer’s sun, laid themselves down at noon under the widespreading branches of a Plane-Tree.

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**Who acts:** TWO TRAVELERS, sun · **What happens:** wear out, lay down, heat · **To what, where:** TWO TRAVELERS, beauty, widespreading branches

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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 (TWO TRAVELERS, sun), 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:pg21:15:78
# text = TWO TRAVELERS, worn out by the heat of the summer’s sun, laid themselves down at noon under the widespreading branches of a Plane-Tree.
1	TWO	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	TRAVELERS	traveler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	widespreading	widespreading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	Plane	Plane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear out** | participle |  | TWO TRAVELERS *not said here* |  |  |  | by the heat of the summer's sun | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lay down** | past | TWO TRAVELERS | beauty |  | the widespreading branches of a Plane Tree | noon |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme under branch=Destination |
| 3 | **heat** |  | the summer's sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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