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title: A Bricklayer earnestly recommended bricks as affording the best mate… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A Bricklayer earnestly recommended bricks as affording the best material for an effective resistance. Who acts: Bricklayer. 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 15

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A Bricklayer earnestly recommended bricks as affording the best material for an effective resistance.

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**Who acts:** Bricklayer · **What happens:** recommend, afford · **To what, where:** bricks, best material

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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 (Bricklayer), 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:pg21:8:15
# text = A Bricklayer earnestly recommended bricks as affording the best material for an effective resistance.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bricklayer	bricklayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	recommended	recommend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	affording	afford	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	effective	effective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	resistance	resistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recommend** | past | a Bricklayer | bricks |  |  |  | earnestly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brick=Theme |
| 2 | **afford** | gerund | a Bricklayer *not said here* | the best material |  |  |  | for a effective resistance | tree rules |

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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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