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title: THE WEASELS and the Mice waged a perpetual war with each other, in w… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: THE WEASELS and the Mice waged a perpetual war with each other, in which much blood was shed. Who acts: WEASELS. 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 95

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THE WEASELS and the Mice waged a perpetual war with each other, in which much blood was shed.

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**Who acts:** WEASELS · **What happens:** wage, shed · **To what, where:** perpetual war, much blood

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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 (WEASELS), 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:pg21:7:95
# text = THE WEASELS and the Mice waged a perpetual war with each other, in which much blood was shed.
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	WEASELS	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	waged	wage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	perpetual	perpetual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	6	obl	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
16	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	shed	shed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wage** | past | the WEASELS and the Mice | a perpetual war |  |  |  | with each | tree rules |
| 2 | **shed** | past · passive |  | much blood |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source |

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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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