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title: One of them said, “The Sun, now while he is single, parches up the m… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: One of them said, “The Sun, now while he is single, parches up the marsh, and compels us to die miserably in our arid homes. Who acts: One, Sun. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 111

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One of them said, “The Sun, now while he is single, parches up the marsh, and compels us to die miserably in our arid homes.

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**Who acts:** One, Sun · **What happens:** say, be, parch up, compel, die · **To what, where:** marsh, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (One, 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:pg21:16:111
# text = One of them said, “The Sun, now while he is single, parches up the marsh, and compels us to die miserably in our arid homes.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
16	parches	parch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	compels	compel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	miserably	miserably	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	arid	arid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | One of Frogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Sun |  |  |  | now | single *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **parch up** *in a quote* | present | the Sun | the marsh |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent marsh=Patient |
| 4 | **compel** *in a quote* | present | the Sun *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent we=Patient clause=Result |
| 5 | **die** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in our arid homes; miserably *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in home=Attribute |

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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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