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title: A MONKEY perched upon a lofty tree saw some Fishermen casting their… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A MONKEY perched upon a lofty tree saw some Fishermen casting their nets into a river, and narrowly watched their proceedings. Who acts: MONKEY, Fishermen. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 126

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A MONKEY perched upon a lofty tree saw some Fishermen casting their nets into a river, and narrowly watched their proceedings.

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**Who acts:** MONKEY, Fishermen · **What happens:** perch, see, cast, watch, proceed · **To what, where:** MONKEY, lofty tree, Fishermen, nets, river, proceedings

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MONKEY, Fishermen), 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:pg21:8:126
# text = A MONKEY perched upon a lofty tree saw some Fishermen casting their nets into a river, and narrowly watched their proceedings.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	MONKEY	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	perched	perch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	Fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	casting	cast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	narrowly	narrowly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	proceedings	proceedings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perch** | participle |  | a MONKEY *not said here* |  | a lofty tree |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon tree=Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | a MONKEY | some Fishermen |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fisherman=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cast** | gerund | some Fishermen *not said here* | Monkey's nets |  | a river |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent net=Material into river=Product |
| 4 | **watch** | past | a MONKEY *not said here* | Monkey's proceedings |  |  |  | narrowly *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proceedings=Theme |
| 5 | **proceed** |  | Monkey |  |  |  |  |  | nom proceedings «act 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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