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description: The Delphians, enraged at this treatment, accused him of impiety, and, in spite of his sacred character as ambassador, executed him as a public criminal. Who acts: Delphians, spite. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Life of Aesop, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 15

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The Delphians, enraged at this treatment, accused him of impiety, and, in spite of his sacred character as ambassador, executed him as a public criminal.

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**Who acts:** Delphians, spite · **What happens:** enrage, accuse, execute, spite · **To what, where:** treatment, Phrygian, sacred character

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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 (Delphians, spite), 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:pg21:2:15
# text = The Delphians, enraged at this treatment, accused him of impiety, and, in spite of his sacred character as ambassador, executed him as a public criminal.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Delphians	Delphian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	enraged	enrage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	accused	accuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	impiety	impiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
25	executed	execute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	criminal	criminal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enrage** | past | the Delphians |  |  | this treatment |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **accuse** | past | the Delphians *not said here* | Phrygian |  |  |  | of impiety | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme of impiety=Attribute |
| 3 | **execute** | past | spite of Phrygian's sacred character as ambassador | Phrygian |  |  |  | as a public criminal | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **spite** |  |  | Phrygian's sacred character as ambassador |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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