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title: AN OLD MAN was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carry… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: AN OLD MAN was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the faggots to the city for sale one day, became very wearied with his long journey. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 100

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AN OLD MAN was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the faggots to the city for sale one day, became very wearied with his long journey.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** employ, cut, carry, become, weary, journey · **To what, where:** OLD MAN, wood, forest, faggots, city

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg21:6:100
# text = AN OLD MAN was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the faggots to the city for sale one day, became very wearied with his long journey.
1	AN	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	OLD	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	MAN	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	faggots	faggot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
27	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	wearied	weary	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **employ** | past · passive |  | a OLD MAN |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **cut** | gerund |  | wood |  | the forest |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund |  | the faggots |  | the city for sale  one day |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent faggot=Theme to city=Destination |
| 4 | **become** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **weary** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with man's long journey | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **journey** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act 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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