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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 140

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After some time they began to think themselves ill-treated in the appointment of so inert a Ruler, and sent a second deputation to Jupiter to pray that he would set over them another sovereign.

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**Who acts:** Frogs, Jupiter · **What happens:** begin, think, treat, send, pray, set · **To what, where:** Frogs, appointment, second deputation, Jupiter, sovereign · **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 (Frogs, Jupiter), 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:pg21:4:140
# text = After some time they began to think themselves ill-treated in the appointment of so inert a Ruler, and sent a second deputation to Jupiter to pray that he would set over them another sovereign.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	appointment	appointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	inert	inert	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
25	deputation	deputation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
34	over	over	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
37	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Frogs *= frog* |  |  |  | time |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Frogs *= frog* *not said here* | Frogs *= frog* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent themselves=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **treat** | participle |  |  |  | the appointment |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **send** | past | Frogs *= frog* *not said here* | a second deputation | Jupiter |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent deputation=Theme to jupiter=Destination |
| 5 | **pray** | to-infinitive | Frogs *= frog* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **set** | would | Jupiter | another sovereign |  |  |  | over Frogs *= frog* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sovereign=Theme over they=Destination |

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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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