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title: He sat down by the wayside, and throwing down his load, besought “De… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: He sat down by the wayside, and throwing down his load, besought “Death” to come. 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 every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 101

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He sat down by the wayside, and throwing down his load, besought “Death” to come.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** sit down, throw down, beseech, come · **To what, where:** load, Death

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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:pg21:6:101
# text = He sat down by the wayside, and throwing down his load, besought “Death” to come.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wayside	wayside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	besought	beseech	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | man |  |  |  |  | by the wayside | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by wayside=Location |
| 2 | **throw down** | gerund | man *not said here* | man's load |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme |
| 3 | **beseech** | participle | man *not said here* | Death |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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