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title: AN ARAB Camel-driver, after completing the loading of his Camel, ask… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: AN ARAB Camel-driver, after completing the loading of his Camel, asked him which he would like best, to go up hill or down. Who acts: ARAB Camel driver, driver. 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 37

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AN ARAB Camel-driver, after completing the loading of his Camel, asked him which he would like best, to go up hill or down.

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**Who acts:** ARAB Camel driver, driver · **What happens:** complete, ask, like, go up · **To what, where:** loading, owner, best, hill · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (ARAB Camel driver, driver), 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:pg21:9:37
# text = AN ARAB Camel-driver, after completing the loading of his Camel, asked him which he would like best, to go up hill or down.
1	AN	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	ARAB	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	Camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	completing	complete	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	loading	loading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	Camel	camel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
21	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **complete** | gerund | a ARAB Camel driver *not said here* | the loading of driver's Camel |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loading=Eventuality |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a ARAB Camel driver |  | owner |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **like** | would | driver | best |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go up** | to-infinitive | driver *not said here* | hill |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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