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title: After a few days he came forth and slaughtered the cattle, and, kill… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: After a few days he came forth and slaughtered the cattle, and, killing the Shepherds who had attacked him, raged with angry fury. Who acts: Shepherd. 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 22

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After a few days he came forth and slaughtered the cattle, and, killing the Shepherds who had attacked him, raged with angry fury.

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**Who acts:** Shepherd · **What happens:** come, slaughter, kill, attack, rage · **To what, where:** cattle, Shepherds, Shepherd

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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:pg21:16:22
# text = After a few days he came forth and slaughtered the cattle, and, killing the Shepherds who had attacked him, raged with angry fury.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	attacked	attack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	raged	rage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Shepherd |  |  |  | day | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **slaughter** | past | Shepherd *not said here* | the cattle |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Patient |
| 3 | **kill** | gerund |  | the Shepherds |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Theme |
| 4 | **attack** | past · perfect · passive |  | Shepherd |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **rage** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with angry fury | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fury=Theme |

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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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