--- title: 17 (return) [ Scazonic, or halting, iambics; a choliambic (a lame, h… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: 17 (return) [ Scazonic, or halting, iambics; a choliambic (a lame, halting iambic) differs from the iambic Senarius in always having a spondee or trochee for its last foot; the fifth foot, to avoid shortness of metre, being generally an iambic. Who acts: 17 return, lame. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (17 return, lame), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg21:17:44 # text = 17 (return) [ Scazonic, or halting, iambics; a choliambic (a lame, halting iambic) differs from the iambic Senarius in always having a spondee or trochee for its last foot; the fifth foot, to avoid shortness of metre, being generally an iambic. 1 17 17 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 3 punct _ _ 5 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Scazonic Scazonic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 halting halt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 iambics iambic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 choliambic choliambic NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 lame lame NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 halting halt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 acl _ _ 20 iambic iambic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 22 differs differ VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 iambic iambic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 Senarius Senarius PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 in in SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 29 advmod _ _ 29 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 spondee spondee NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 trochee trochee NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 fifth fifth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 avoid avoid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 acl:relcl _ _ 45 shortness shortness NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 metre metre NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 49 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 52 cop _ _ 50 generally generally ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 51 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 iambic iambic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **halt** | gerund | 17 return *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **halt** | gerund | a lame *not said here* | | | | | iambic *property* | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **differ** | present | 17 return | the fifth foot | | | | from the iambic Senarius | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from senarius=Co-Theme | | 4 | **have** | gerund | 17 return *not said here* | a spondee or trochee | | | | for choliambic's last foot; always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spondee=Patient | | 5 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | 17 return *not said here* | shortness of metre | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent shortness=Location | | 6 | **is** | gerund | 17 return *not said here* | | | | | generally, iambic *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/17/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/17/45/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/17/)