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title: A PIGEON, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water paint… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A PIGEON, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard. Who acts: PIGEON. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 46

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A PIGEON, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard.

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**Who acts:** PIGEON · **What happens:** oppress, see, paint · **To what, where:** PIGEON, goblet, signboard

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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 (PIGEON), 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:pg21:4:46
# text = A PIGEON, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	PIGEON	pigeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	oppressed	oppress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	excessive	excessive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	goblet	goblet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	signboard	signboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oppress** | participle |  | a PIGEON *not said here* |  |  |  | by excessive thirst | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | a PIGEON | a goblet of water |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goblet=Stimulus |
| 3 | **paint** | participle |  | a goblet of water *not said here* |  | a signboard |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on signboard=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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