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title: Some time after, the Shepherd, being imprisoned on a false accusatio… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 10

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Some time after, the Shepherd, being imprisoned on a false accusation, was condemned “to be cast to the Lions” as the punishment for his imputed crime.

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**Who acts:** Shepherd · **What happens:** imprison, condemn, cast, impute, incriminate · **To what, where:** Shepherd, false accusation

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shepherd), 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:pg21:16:10
# text = Some time after, the Shepherd, being imprisoned on a false accusation, was condemned “to be cast to the Lions” as the punishment for his imputed crime.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	after	after	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	accusation	accusation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	condemned	condemn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	imputed	impute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imprison** | gerund · passive |  | the Shepherd *not said here* |  | a false accusation |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on accusation=Destination |
| 2 | **condemn** | past · passive |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING» |
| 3 | **cast** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | to the Lions; as the punishment for Shepherd's imputed crime | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: as punishment=Attribute |
| 4 | **impute** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **incriminate** |  | Shepherd |  |  |  |  |  | nom crime «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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