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title: One of these ambassadorial missions, undertaken at the command of Cr… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: One of these ambassadorial missions, undertaken at the command of Crœsus, was the occasion of his death. Who acts: Phrygian. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Life of Aesop, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 13

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One of these ambassadorial missions, undertaken at the command of Crœsus, was the occasion of his death.

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**Who acts:** Phrygian · **What happens:** undertake, be, command, die · **To what, where:** ambassadorial missions, command, occasion, Crœsus · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Life of Aesop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Phrygian), 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:pg21:2:13
# text = One of these ambassadorial missions, undertaken at the command of Crœsus, was the occasion of his death.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	ambassadorial	ambassadorial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	missions	mission	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	undertaken	undertake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Crœsus	Crœsus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undertake** | participle |  | this ambassadorial missions *not said here* |  | the command of Crœsus |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the occasion |  |  |  | of Phrygian's death | tree rules |
| 3 | **command** |  |  | Crœsus |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **die** |  | Phrygian |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event 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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