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title: The Fishermen after a while gave up fishing, and on going home to di… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fishermen after a while gave up fishing, and on going home to dinner left their nets upon the bank. Who acts: 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 127

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The Fishermen after a while gave up fishing, and on going home to dinner left their nets upon the bank.

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**Who acts:** Fishermen · **What happens:** give up, go, leave · **To what, where:** fishing, dinner, nets, bank

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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 (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:pg21:8:127
# text = The Fishermen after a while gave up fishing, and on going home to dinner left their nets upon the bank.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
13	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **give up** | past | the Fishermen after a while | fishing |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fishing=Source |
| 2 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  | dinner |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to dinner=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **leave** | past | the Fishermen after a while *not said here* | Fishermen's nets |  | the bank |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent net=Theme upon bank=Location |

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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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