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title: A FISHERMAN, engaged in his calling, made a very successful cast and… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A FISHERMAN, engaged in his calling, made a very successful cast and captured a great haul of fish. Who acts: FISHERMAN, acquaintance. 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 124

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A FISHERMAN, engaged in his calling, made a very successful cast and captured a great haul of fish.

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**Who acts:** FISHERMAN, acquaintance · **What happens:** engage, make, capture, call, haul · **To what, where:** FISHERMAN, calling, successful cast, great haul, fish · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (FISHERMAN, acquaintance), 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:pg21:6:124
# text = A FISHERMAN, engaged in his calling, made a very successful cast and captured a great haul of fish.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	FISHERMAN	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	engaged	engage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	calling	calling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	cast	cast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	captured	capture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	haul	haul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **engage** | participle |  | a FISHERMAN *not said here* |  |  |  | in acquaintance's calling *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in calling=Goal |
| 2 | **make** | past | a FISHERMAN | a successful cast |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cast=Product |
| 3 | **capture** | past | a FISHERMAN *not said here* | a great haul of fish |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haul=Theme |
| 4 | **call** |  | acquaintance |  |  |  |  |  | nom calling «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **haul** |  |  | fish |  |  |  |  | nom haul «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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