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title: He was owned by two masters in succession, both inhabitants of Samos… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: He was owned by two masters in succession, both inhabitants of Samos, Xanthus and Jadmon, the latter of whom gave him his liberty as a reward for his learning and wit. Who acts: succession. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Life of Aesop, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 5

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He was owned by two masters in succession, both inhabitants of Samos, Xanthus and Jadmon, the latter of whom gave him his liberty as a reward for his learning and wit.

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**Who acts:** succession · **What happens:** own, give · **To what, where:** honour, liberty

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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 (succession), 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:pg21:2:5
# text = He was owned by two masters in succession, both inhabitants of Samos, Xanthus and Jadmon, the latter of whom gave him his liberty as a reward for his learning and wit.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	owned	own	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	masters	master	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	succession	succession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Samos	Samos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Xanthus	Xanthus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Jadmon	Jadmon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	liberty	liberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	wit	wit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	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 | **own** | past · passive | succession | honour |  |  |  | by two masters | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past |  | honour's liberty | honour |  |  | as a reward for honour's learning and wit | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient liberty=Theme |

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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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