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title: An archer, who saw the Eagle from a place of concealment, took an ac… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: An archer, who saw the Eagle from a place of concealment, took an accurate aim and wounded him mortally. Who acts: archer. 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 72

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An archer, who saw the Eagle from a place of concealment, took an accurate aim and wounded him mortally.

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**Who acts:** archer · **What happens:** see, take, wound · **To what, where:** Eagle, place, accurate aim, archer

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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 (archer), 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:pg21:7:72
# text = An archer, who saw the Eagle from a place of concealment, took an accurate aim and wounded him mortally.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	archer	archer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	concealment	concealment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	accurate	accurate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	aim	aim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	wounded	wound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	mortally	mortally	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | a archer | the Eagle |  | a place of concealment |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eagle=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take** | past | a archer | a accurate aim |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme |
| 3 | **wound** | past | a archer *not said here* | archer |  |  |  | mortally *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=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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