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title: A RIVER carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A RIVER carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass. Who acts: RIVER. 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 72

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A RIVER carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass.

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**Who acts:** RIVER · **What happens:** carry down, make · **To what, where:** two Pots, stream

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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 (RIVER), 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:pg21:6:72
# text = A RIVER carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	RIVER	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	Pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	earthenware	earthenware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	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 | **carry down** | participle | a RIVER *not said here* | two Pots |  | RIVER's stream |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pot=Value in stream=Location |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of earthenware | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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