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title: Such a seemingly extravagant theory, thus roundly asserted, excited… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Such a seemingly extravagant theory, thus roundly asserted, excited much opposition. Who acts: extravagant theory. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 107

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Such a seemingly extravagant theory, thus roundly asserted, excited much opposition.

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**Who acts:** extravagant theory · **What happens:** assert · **To what, where:** excited much opposition

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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 (extravagant theory), 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:pg21:1:107
# text = Such a seemingly extravagant theory, thus roundly asserted, excited much opposition.
1	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	5	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	seemingly	seemingly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	extravagant	extravagant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	theory	theory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	roundly	roundly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	asserted	assert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assert** | participle | such extravagant theory *not said here* | excited much opposition |  |  |  | roundly, thus *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=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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