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title: A TRAVELER wearied from a long journey lay down, overcome with fatig… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A TRAVELER wearied from a long journey lay down, overcome with fatigue, on the very brink of a deep well. Who acts: TRAVELER. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 106

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A TRAVELER wearied from a long journey lay down, overcome with fatigue, on the very brink of a deep well.

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**Who acts:** TRAVELER · **What happens:** weary, lay down, overcome · **To what, where:** TRAVELER, long journey, brink

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (TRAVELER), 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:pg21:9:106
# text = A TRAVELER wearied from a long journey lay down, overcome with fatigue, on the very brink of a deep well.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	TRAVELER	traveler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	wearied	weary	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	brink	brink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weary** | participle |  | a TRAVELER *not said here* |  | a long journey |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lay down** | infinitive | a TRAVELER |  |  | the brink of a deep well |  | down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on brink=Destination |
| 3 | **overcome** | infinitive | a TRAVELER *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with fatigue | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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