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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 111

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The arguments of Dr. Bentley were yet further defended a few years later by Mr. Thomas Tyrwhitt, a well-read scholar, who gave up high civil distinctions that he might devote himself the more unreservedly to literary pursuits.

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**Who acts:** arguments, read scholar, Mr. · **What happens:** be, read, give up, devote, argue · **To what, where:** high civil distinctions, Mr., Bentley

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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 (arguments, read scholar, Mr.), 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:pg21:1:111
# text = The arguments of Dr. Bentley were yet further defended a few years later by Mr. Thomas Tyrwhitt, a well-read scholar, who gave up high civil distinctions that he might devote himself the more unreservedly to literary pursuits.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	arguments	argument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Bentley	Bentley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	further	further	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	defended	defend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
16	Thomas	Thomas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	Tyrwhitt	Tyrwhitt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	scholar	scholar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	distinctions	distinction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	devote	devote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
35	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	34	obj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	38	advmod	_	_
38	unreservedly	unreservedly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	pursuits	pursuit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the arguments of Bentley  Dr. |  |  |  | yet | defend, further, late *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **read** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give up** | past | a read scholar | high civil distinctions |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distinction=Source |
| 4 | **devote** | might | Mr. | Mr. |  |  |  | unreservedly *property* | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 5 | **argue** |  |  | Bentley  Dr. |  |  |  |  | nom argument «communication 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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