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title: He gave his own goats just sufficient food to keep them alive, but f… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: He gave his own goats just sufficient food to keep them alive, but fed the strangers more abundantly in the hope of enticing them to stay with him and of making them his own. Who acts: Dog, hope. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, with its dependency tree 
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 71

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He gave his own goats just sufficient food to keep them alive, but fed the strangers more abundantly in the hope of enticing them to stay with him and of making them his own.

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**Who acts:** Dog, hope · **What happens:** give, keep, feed, entice, stay, make · **To what, where:** sufficient food, own goats, Goats, strangers, hope

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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 (Dog, hope), 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:pg21:5:71
# text = He gave his own goats just sufficient food to keep them alive, but fed the strangers more abundantly in the hope of enticing them to stay with him and of making them his own.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	abundantly	abundantly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	enticing	entice	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	conj	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Dog | sufficient food | Dog's own goats |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent goat=Recipient food=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Dog *not said here* | Goats *= goat* |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **feed** | past | Dog *not said here* | the strangers |  | the hope |  | abundantly *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stranger=Value in hope=Location |
| 4 | **entice** | gerund | the hope *not said here* | Goats *= goat* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 5 | **stay** | to-infinitive | the hope *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Dog | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location |
| 6 | **make** | gerund | the hope *not said here* | Goats *= goat* |  |  |  | own *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

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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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