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title: JUPITER DETERMINED, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: JUPITER DETERMINED, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds, and made proclamation that on a certain day they should all present themselves before him, when he would himself choose the most beautiful among them to be king. Who acts: JUPITER, Birds. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fable
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 108

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JUPITER DETERMINED, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds, and made proclamation that on a certain day they should all present themselves before him, when he would himself choose the most beautiful among them to be king.

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**Who acts:** JUPITER, Birds · **What happens:** determine, say, create, make, present, choose · **To what, where:** Jackdaw, sovereign, proclamation, beautiful · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (JUPITER, Birds), 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:pg21:5:108
# text = JUPITER DETERMINED, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds, and made proclamation that on a certain day they should all present themselves before him, when he would himself choose the most beautiful among them to be king.
1	JUPITER	JUPITER	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	DETERMINED	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	create	create	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	all	all	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
28	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	_
29	before	before	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	nsubj	_	_
36	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	39	advmod	_	_
39	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obj	_	_
40	among	among	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	cop	_	_
44	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | past | JUPITER |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | Jackdaw |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **create** | to-infinitive |  | a sovereign |  |  |  | over the birds | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sovereign=Result |
| 4 | **make** | past |  | proclamation |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset proclamation=Product |
| 5 | **present** | should | Birds *= bird* | proclamation |  |  | before JUPITER; day | all *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **choose** | would | JUPITER | the beautiful |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beautiful=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | to-infinitive | Birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  | among king | tree rules |

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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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