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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 61

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As this afforded only protection for one, and as the Traveler and the owner of the Ass both claimed it, a violent dispute arose between them as to which of them had the right to the Shadow.

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**Who acts:** violent dispute · **What happens:** afford, claim, arise, have · **To what, where:** this, Ass, right

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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 (violent dispute), 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:pg21:8:61
# text = As this afforded only protection for one, and as the Traveler and the owner of the Ass both claimed it, a violent dispute arose between them as to which of them had the right to the Shadow.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	afforded	afford	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Traveler	Traveler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	both	both	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	between	between	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	_
34	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Shadow	Shadow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **afford** | participle · passive |  | this |  |  |  | for one | tree rules |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | past |  | Ass |  |  |  | as the Traveler and the owner of the Ass; both *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **arise** | past | a violent dispute |  |  |  |  | between Travelers *= traveler* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between they=Location |
| 4 | **have** | past | a violent dispute *not said here* | the right |  |  |  | of Travelers *= traveler*; to the Shadow | 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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