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title: SOME CRANES made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: SOME CRANES made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat. Who acts: SOME CRANES. 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 59

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SOME CRANES made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat.

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**Who acts:** SOME CRANES · **What happens:** make, sow · **To what, where:** feeding grounds, plowlands

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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 (SOME CRANES), 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:pg21:4:59
# text = SOME CRANES made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat.
1	SOME	some	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	CRANES	crane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	feeding	feeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	grounds	grounds	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	plowlands	plowland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	sown	sow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | SOME CRANES | Cranes's feeding grounds |  | some plowlands |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material grounds=Product |
| 2 | **sow** | participle |  | some plowlands *not said here* |  |  |  | with wheat; newly *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wheat=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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