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title: A GOATHERD, driving his flock from their pasture at eventide, found… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A GOATHERD, driving his flock from their pasture at eventide, found some Wild Goats mingled among them, and shut them up together with his own for the night. Who acts: GOATHERD, Wild Goats. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, with its dependency tree and th
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 69

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A GOATHERD, driving his flock from their pasture at eventide, found some Wild Goats mingled among them, and shut them up together with his own for the night.

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**Who acts:** GOATHERD, Wild Goats · **What happens:** drive, find, mingle, shut up · **To what, where:** flock, pasture, Goatherd · **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 (GOATHERD, Wild Goats), 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:pg21:5:69
# text = A GOATHERD, driving his flock from their pasture at eventide, found some Wild Goats mingled among them, and shut them up together with his own for the night.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	GOATHERD	goatherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	eventide	eventide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
18	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	together	together	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | gerund | a GOATHERD *not said here* | Dog's flock |  | Goatherd's pasture |  | at eventide | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent flock=Theme from pasture=Destination at eventide=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | a GOATHERD |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **mingle** | past | some Wild Goats |  |  |  |  | among Goatherd | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **shut up** | infinitive | a GOATHERD *not said here* | Goatherd |  |  | night | with Dog's own; together *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with own=Instrument |

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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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