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title: “Pray save me, Master,” he said, “and let me go free this once. — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: “Pray save me, Master,” he said, “and let me go free this once. Who acts: Stork. 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 8

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“Pray save me, Master,” he said, “and let me go free this once.

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**Who acts:** Stork · **What happens:** pray, save, say, let, go · **To what, where:** Stork, this · **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 (Stork), 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:pg21:4:8
# text = “Pray save me, Master,” he said, “and let me go free this once.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	reparandum	_	_
3	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obl	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **save** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Stork |  |  |  | Master *vocative* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Stork |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Stork |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | Stork *not said here* | this |  |  |  | free, once *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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