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title: On the first occasion of their being composed they were intended to… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: On the first occasion of their being composed they were intended to refer to some passing event, or to some individual acts of wrong-doing. Who acts: first occasion, individual acts. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 129

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On the first occasion of their being composed they were intended to refer to some passing event, or to some individual acts of wrong-doing.

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**Who acts:** first occasion, individual acts · **What happens:** compose, intend, refer, pass, do · **To what, where:** primary, first occasion

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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 (first occasion, individual acts), 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:pg21:16:129
# text = On the first occasion of their being composed they were intended to refer to some passing event, or to some individual acts of wrong-doing.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	refer	refer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
16	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	individual	individual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	acts	act	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
24	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compose** | gerund · passive | the first occasion *not said here* | primary |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **intend** | past · passive |  | primary |  | the first occasion |  | to some individual acts | tree rules |
| 3 | **refer** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to some passing event | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to event=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **pass** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | gerund | some individual acts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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