---
title: Dr. Bentley[18] met with an able antagonist in a member of the Unive… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Dr. Bentley[18] met with an able antagonist in a member of the University of Oxford, the Hon. Who acts: Bentley. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/108/)

<!-- 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/) / 108

# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 108

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Dr. Bentley\[18\] met with an able antagonist in a member of the University of Oxford, the Hon.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Bentley · **What happens:** meet

<!-- .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 (Bentley), 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:pg21:1:108
# text = Dr. Bentley[18] met with an able antagonist in a member of the University of Oxford, the Hon.
1	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Bentley	Bentley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
6	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	antagonist	antagonist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	University	University	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Oxford	Oxford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Hon	Hon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | participle | Bentley  Dr. |  |  |  |  | with a able antagonist in a member of the University of Oxford and the Hon | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with antagonist=Co-Agent |

<!-- .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 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/107/)
- next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/109/)
- ↑ back to [Literally Translated From the Greek](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/)