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title: The Physician insisted on his claim, and, as she still refused, summ… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Physician insisted on his claim, and, as she still refused, summoned her before the Judge. Who acts: Physician, infirmity. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 122

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The Physician insisted on his claim, and, as she still refused, summoned her before the Judge.

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**Who acts:** Physician, infirmity · **What happens:** insist, refuse, summon, claim · **To what, where:** claim, infirmity

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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 (Physician, infirmity), 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:pg21:5:122
# text = The Physician insisted on his claim, and, as she still refused, summoned her before the Judge.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Physician	Physician	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	insisted	insist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **insist** *speech: other* | past | the Physician |  |  | physician's claim |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **refuse** | past | infirmity |  |  |  | still |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **summon** | past | the Physician *not said here* |  | infirmity |  | before the Judge |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 4 | **claim** |  | physician |  |  |  |  |  | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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