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title: A SHIPWRECKED MAN, having been cast upon a certain shore, slept afte… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A SHIPWRECKED MAN, having been cast upon a certain shore, slept after his buffetings with the deep. Who acts: SHIPWRECKED MAN. 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 74

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A SHIPWRECKED MAN, having been cast upon a certain shore, slept after his buffetings with the deep.

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**Who acts:** SHIPWRECKED MAN · **What happens:** shipwreck, cast, sleep · **To what, where:** SHIPWRECKED MAN, certain shore

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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 (SHIPWRECKED MAN), 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:pg21:16:74
# text = A SHIPWRECKED MAN, having been cast upon a certain shore, slept after his buffetings with the deep.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	SHIPWRECKED	shipwreck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	MAN	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	buffetings	buffeting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shipwreck** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cast** | gerund · perfect · passive |  | a SHIPWRECKED MAN *not said here* |  | a certain shore |  |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: upon shore=Destination |
| 3 | **sleep** | past | a SHIPWRECKED MAN |  |  |  | after man's buffetings | with the deep | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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