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title: A FISHERMAN who lived on the produce of his nets, one day caught a s… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A FISHERMAN who lived on the produce of his nets, one day caught a single small Fish as the result of his day’s labor. Who acts: FISHERMAN. 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 7

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A FISHERMAN who lived on the produce of his nets, one day caught a single small Fish as the result of his day’s labor.

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**Who acts:** FISHERMAN · **What happens:** live, catch, result · **To what, where:** produce, single small Fish, labor

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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 (FISHERMAN), 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:pg21:9:7
# text = A FISHERMAN who lived on the produce of his nets, one day caught a single small Fish as the result of his day’s labor.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	FISHERMAN	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	produce	produce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	labor	labor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | a FISHERMAN |  |  | the produce of Fish's nets |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on produce=Location |
| 2 | **catch** | past | a FISHERMAN | a single small Fish |  |  |  | as the result of Fish's day's labor | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
| 3 | **result** |  |  | Fish's day's labor |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon 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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