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title: A CERTAIN HUNTER, having snared a hare, placed it upon his shoulders… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A CERTAIN HUNTER, having snared a hare, placed it upon his shoulders and set out homewards. Who acts: CERTAIN HUNTER. 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 99

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A CERTAIN HUNTER, having snared a hare, placed it upon his shoulders and set out homewards.

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**Who acts:** CERTAIN HUNTER · **What happens:** have, snare, place, set out · **To what, where:** hare, windfall, shoulders, homewards

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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 (CERTAIN HUNTER), 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:pg21:16:99
# text = A CERTAIN HUNTER, having snared a hare, placed it upon his shoulders and set out homewards.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	CERTAIN	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	HUNTER	HUNTER	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	reparandum	_	_
6	snared	snare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	homewards	homeward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **snare** | past | a CERTAIN HUNTER | a hare |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hare=Theme |
| 3 | **place** | past | a CERTAIN HUNTER *not said here* | windfall |  | hare's shoulders |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon shoulder=Destination |
| 4 | **set out** | infinitive | a CERTAIN HUNTER *not said here* | homewards |  |  |  |  | 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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