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title: The owner went up after him and quickly drove him down, beating him… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The owner went up after him and quickly drove him down, beating him severely with a thick wooden cudgel. Who acts: owner. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 36

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The owner went up after him and quickly drove him down, beating him severely with a thick wooden cudgel.

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**Who acts:** owner · **What happens:** go up, drive down, beat · **To what, where:** Ass

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owner), 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:pg21:7:36
# text = The owner went up after him and quickly drove him down, beating him severely with a thick wooden cudgel.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | the owner |  |  |  | after Ass |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **drive down** | past | the owner *not said here* | Ass |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **beat** | gerund | the owner *not said here* | Ass |  |  |  | with a thick wooden cudgel; severely *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with cudgel=Instrument |

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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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