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title: The Salt Merchant and His Ass — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Salt Merchant and His Ass 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 53

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The Salt Merchant and His Ass

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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: 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:pg21:5:53
# text = The Salt Merchant and His Ass
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Salt	Salt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Merchant	Merchant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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