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title: THE SHE-GOATS having obtained a beard by request to Jupiter, the He-… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: THE SHE-GOATS having obtained a beard by request to Jupiter, the He-Goats were sorely displeased and made complaint that the females equaled them in dignity. Who acts: request, females. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 65

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THE SHE-GOATS having obtained a beard by request to Jupiter, the He-Goats were sorely displeased and made complaint that the females equaled them in dignity.

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**Who acts:** request, females · **What happens:** obtain, displease, make, equal · **To what, where:** SHE GOATS, Jupiter, Goats, dignity

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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 (request, females), 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:pg21:16:65
# text = THE SHE-GOATS having obtained a beard by request to Jupiter, the He-Goats were sorely displeased and made complaint that the females equaled them in dignity.
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	SHE	she	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	GOATS	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	aux	_	_
6	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
15	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	sorely	sorely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	displeased	displease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
23	complaint	complaint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	equaled	equal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	dignity	dignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obtain** | gerund · perfect · passive | request to Jupiter | the SHE GOATS |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **displease** | past · passive |  | Jupiter |  |  |  | sorely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **equal** | past | the females | Goats *= goat* |  | dignity |  |  | tree rules |

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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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