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title: They therefore chose as leaders Mice that were most renowned for the… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: They therefore chose as leaders Mice that were most renowned for their family descent, strength, and counsel, as well as those most noted for their courage in the fight, so that they might be better marshaled in battle array and formed into troops, regiments, and battalions. Who acts: Mice. A senten
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 98

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They therefore chose as leaders Mice that were most renowned for their family descent, strength, and counsel, as well as those most noted for their courage in the fight, so that they might be better marshaled in battle array and formed into troops, regiments, and battalions.

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**Who acts:** Mice · **What happens:** choose, renown, note, be, marshal, form · **To what, where:** counsel, leaders Mice, those, battle array, troops

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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 (Mice), 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:pg21:7:98
# text = They therefore chose as leaders Mice that were most renowned for their family descent, strength, and counsel, as well as those most noted for their courage in the fight, so that they might be better marshaled in battle array and formed into troops, regiments, and battalions.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	renowned	renown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	26	cc	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	fixed	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
24	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	26	advmod	_	_
26	noted	note	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	39	mark	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	cop	_	_
39	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	parataxis	_	_
40	marshaled	marshal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	csubj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	array	array	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	conj	_	_
46	into	into	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	regiments	regiment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	battalions	battalion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | Mice *= mouse* | counsel |  |  |  | as leaders Mice; battalions *obl*; therefore *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **renown** | past · passive |  | leaders Mice |  |  |  | for Mice's family descent and strength | tree rules |
| 3 | **note** | participle · passive |  | those |  |  |  | for Mice's courage in the fight | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | might | Mice *= mouse* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **marshal** | participle |  |  |  | battle array |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **form** | participle |  |  |  | troops and regiments |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **descend** |  | Mice *= mouse* |  |  |  |  |  | nom descent «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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