---
title: His name is mentioned by Avienus; by Suidas, a celebrated critic, at… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: His name is mentioned by Avienus; by Suidas, a celebrated critic, at the close of the eleventh century, who gives in his lexicon several isolated verses of his version of the fables; and by John Tzetzes, a grammarian and poet of Constantinople, who lived during the latter half of the twelfth century
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/103/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Three hundred Aesop’s fables](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/) / [Literally Translated From the Greek](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/) / 103

# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 103

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
His name is mentioned by Avienus; by Suidas, a celebrated critic, at the close of the eleventh century, who gives in his lexicon several isolated verses of his version of the fables; and by John Tzetzes, a grammarian and poet of Constantinople, who lived during the latter half of the twelfth century.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Avienus, close, grammarian, A.D · **What happens:** mention, celebrate, give, live, name, verse · **To what, where:** name, several isolated verses, lexicon, version

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Avienus, close, grammarian, A.D), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg21:1:103
# text = His name is mentioned by Avienus; by Suidas, a celebrated critic, at the close of the eleventh century, who gives in his lexicon several isolated verses of his version of the fables; and by John Tzetzes, a grammarian and poet of Constantinople, who lived during the latter half of the twelfth century.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Avienus	Avienus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Suidas	Suidas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	critic	critic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	close	close	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	eleventh	eleventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
21	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	lexicon	lexicon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	isolated	isolated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Tzetzes	Tzetze	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	grammarian	grammarian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
51	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl	_	_
52	during	during	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	51	obl	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mention** *speech: other* | present · passive | Avienus | A.D's name |  |  |  | by Suidas; by John Tzetzes and a grammarian of Constantinople and poet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 2 | **celebrate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | present | the close of the eleventh century | several isolated verses of A.D's version of the fables |  | A.D's lexicon |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | past | a grammarian of Constantinople and poet |  |  |  | during the latter half of the twelfth century |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **name** |  | A.D |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **verse** |  |  | A.D's version of the fables |  |  |  |  | nom verse «communication transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/102/)
- next →: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/104/)
- ↑ back to [Literally Translated From the Greek](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/)