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title: Among other things, he said that when he was at Rhodes he had leaped… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Among other things, he said that when he was at Rhodes he had leaped to such a distance that no man of his day could leap anywhere near him as to that, there were in Rhodes many persons who saw him do it and whom he could call as witnesses. Who acts: man, Rhodes many persons. A sentence of «Three hu
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 107

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Among other things, he said that when he was at Rhodes he had leaped to such a distance that no man of his day could leap anywhere near him as to that, there were in Rhodes many persons who saw him do it and whom he could call as witnesses.

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**Who acts:** man, Rhodes many persons · **What happens:** say, be, leap, see, do, call · **To what, where:** Rhodes, distance, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Rhodes many persons), 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:pg21:4:107
# text = Among other things, he said that when he was at Rhodes he had leaped to such a distance that no man of his day could leap anywhere near him as to that, there were in Rhodes many persons who saw him do it and whom he could call as witnesses.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Rhodes	Rhodes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	19	det:predet	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	leap	leap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
28	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	advmod	_	_
29	near	near	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	33	case	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	36	expl	_	_
36	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	Rhodes	Rhodes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
39	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
41	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	50	obj	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
51	as	as	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	witnesses	witness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  | among other things | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | man |  |  | Rhodes |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leap** | past · perfect · passive |  | Rhodes |  |  |  | to such distance; as that | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **leap** | could | no man of man's day | such distance |  |  |  | near Rhodes; anywhere *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Trajectory |
| 5 | **be** | past | man *not said here* |  |  | there |  | in Rhodes many persons | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in person=Location |
| 6 | **see** | past | Rhodes many persons | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **do** | infinitive | man *not said here* | distance |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 8 | **call** | could | man |  |  |  |  | as witnesses | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient |

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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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