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title: A veritable copy of Babrias was found in a manner as singular as wer… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 116

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A veritable copy of Babrias was found in a manner as singular as were the MSS. of Quinctilian’s Institutes, and of Cicero’s Orations by Poggio in the monastery of St. Gall A.D.

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**What happens:** find, be, copy · **To what, where:** veritable copy, manner, Babrias

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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: 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:pg21:1:116
# text = A veritable copy of Babrias was found in a manner as singular as were the MSS. of Quinctilian’s Institutes, and of Cicero’s Orations by Poggio in the monastery of St. Gall A.D.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	veritable	veritable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	copy	copy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Babrias	Babrias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	MSS	MSS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Quinctilian	Quinctilian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	Institutes	Institute	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	Cicero	Cicero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	Orations	oration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Poggio	Poggio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	monastery	monastery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:desc	_	_
35	Gall	Gall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	A.D	A.D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · passive |  | a veritable copy of Babrias |  | a manner |  | as singular; of Quinctilian's Institutes; of Cicero's Orations by Poggio in the monastery of Gall  St. | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme as singular=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as the MSS | tree rules |
| 3 | **copy** |  |  | Babrias |  |  |  |  | nom copy «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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