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title: A MAN who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on return… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A MAN who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning to his own country, of the many wonderful and heroic feats he had performed in the different places he had visited. Who acts: MAN, different places. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, 
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 106

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A MAN who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning to his own country, of the many wonderful and heroic feats he had performed in the different places he had visited.

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**Who acts:** MAN, different places · **What happens:** travel, boast, return, perform, visit · **To what, where:** foreign lands, own country, many wonderful feats, different places, man

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MAN, different places), 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:pg21:4:106
# text = A MAN who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning to his own country, of the many wonderful and heroic feats he had performed in the different places he had visited.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	MAN	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	traveled	travel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	boasted	boast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
23	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	feats	feat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	performed	perform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	visited	visit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past · perfect | a MAN |  |  | foreign lands |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Trajectory |
| 2 | **boast** *speech: other* | past | a MAN |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **return** | gerund | a MAN *not said here* |  |  | man's own country |  | of the many wonderful feats | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to country=Initial\_Location of feat=Destination |
| 4 | **perform** | past · perfect | man | the many wonderful feats *not said here* |  | the different places |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feat=Theme |
| 5 | **visit** | past · perfect · passive | the different places *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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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