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title: Some boatmen sailing by saw her, and taking a successful aim, mortal… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Some boatmen sailing by saw her, and taking a successful aim, mortally wounded her. Who acts: boatmen. 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 92

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Some boatmen sailing by saw her, and taking a successful aim, mortally wounded her.

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**Who acts:** boatmen · **What happens:** sail, see, take, wound · **To what, where:** Doe, successful aim

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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 (boatmen), 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:pg21:7:92
# text = Some boatmen sailing by saw her, and taking a successful aim, mortally wounded her.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	boatmen	boatman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	aim	aim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	mortally	mortally	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	wounded	wound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | gerund | some boatmen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past | some boatmen | Doe |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | some boatmen *not said here* | a successful aim |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme |
| 4 | **wound** | past | some boatmen *not said here* | Doe |  |  |  | mortally *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=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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