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title: Jupiter, telling him that it would be the last time that he could gr… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Jupiter, telling him that it would be the last time that he could grant his request, ordained that he be sold to a tanner. Who acts: Jupiter, load, Shadow. 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 70

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Jupiter, telling him that it would be the last time that he could grant his request, ordained that he be sold to a tanner.

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**Who acts:** Jupiter, load, Shadow · **What happens:** tell, be, grant, ordain, sell, request · **To what, where:** Shadow, last time, request, tanner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Jupiter, load, Shadow), 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:pg21:8:70
# text = Jupiter, telling him that it would be the last time that he could grant his request, ordained that he be sold to a tanner.
1	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	ordained	ordain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tanner	tanner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Jupiter |  | Shadow |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | would | load | the last time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grant** | could | Shadow | Shadow's request |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme |
| 4 | **ordain** | past | Jupiter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sell** | infinitive · passive |  | Shadow | a tanner |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to tanner=Recipient |
| 6 | **request** |  | Shadow |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication transitive»: 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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