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title: Among them came a Buffoon well known among the populace for his joke… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Among them came a Buffoon well known among the populace for his jokes, and said that he had a kind of entertainment which had never been brought out on any stage before. Who acts: Buffoon, NOBLEMAN. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, with its dependency t
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 81

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Among them came a Buffoon well known among the populace for his jokes, and said that he had a kind of entertainment which had never been brought out on any stage before.

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**Who acts:** Buffoon, NOBLEMAN · **What happens:** come, know, say, have, not bring out, joke · **To what, where:** Buffoon, kind, stage · **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 (Buffoon, NOBLEMAN), 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:pg21:16:81
# text = Among them came a Buffoon well known among the populace for his jokes, and said that he had a kind of entertainment which had never been brought out on any stage before.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Buffoon	buffoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	populace	populace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	entertainment	entertainment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	before	before	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **come** | past | a Buffoon |  |  |  |  | among performers *= performer* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Location |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | a Buffoon *not said here* |  |  |  | among the populace for NOBLEMAN's jokes; well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | past | NOBLEMAN | a kind of entertainment |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **bring out** | past · perfect · passive |  | a kind of entertainment |  | any stage |  | before *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **joke** |  | NOBLEMAN |  |  |  |  |  | nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=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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