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title: A Boar rushed upon him, and avenged with a stroke of his tusks a lon… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A Boar rushed upon him, and avenged with a stroke of his tusks a long-remembered injury. Who acts: Boar. 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 46

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A Boar rushed upon him, and avenged with a stroke of his tusks a long-remembered injury.

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**Who acts:** Boar · **What happens:** rush, avenge, remember, stroke · **To what, where:** tusks

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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 (Boar), 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:pg21:8:46
# text = A Boar rushed upon him, and avenged with a stroke of his tusks a long-remembered injury.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Boar	Boar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	avenged	avenge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	tusks	tusk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past | a Boar |  |  |  |  | upon Lion | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory |
| 2 | **avenge** | participle | a Boar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a stroke of Lion's tusks | tree rules |
| 3 | **remember** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stroke** |  |  | Lion's tusks |  |  |  |  | nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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