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title: Then summoning his laborers, he ordered that the Stag should be seiz… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Then summoning his laborers, he ordered that the Stag should be seized and killed. Who acts: straw. 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 50

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Then summoning his laborers, he ordered that the Stag should be seized and killed.

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**Who acts:** straw · **What happens:** summon, order, seize, kill · **To what, where:** laborers, Stag

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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 (straw), 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:pg21:7:50
# text = Then summoning his laborers, he ordered that the Stag should be seized and killed.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	summoning	summon	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	laborers	laborer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Stag	Stag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **summon** | gerund | straw *not said here* | straw's laborers |  |  | then |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laborer=Recipient |
| 2 | **order** | past | straw |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **seize** | should · passive |  | the Stag |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **kill** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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