--- title: M. Menoides, at the suggestion of M. Villemain, Minister of Public I… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: M. Menoides, at the suggestion of M. Villemain, Minister of Public Instruction to King Louis Philippe, had been entrusted with a commission to search for ancient MSS., and in carrying out his instructions he found a MS. at the convent of St. Laura, on Mount Athos, which proved to be a copy of the lo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/118/) [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/) / 118 # Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 118 M. Menoides, at the suggestion of M. Villemain, Minister of Public Instruction to King Louis Philippe, had been entrusted with a commission to search for ancient MSS., and in carrying out his instructions he found a MS. at the convent of St. Laura, on Mount Athos, which proved to be a copy of the long suspected and wished-for choliambic version of Babrias. **Who acts:** M., Mount Athos · **What happens:** entrust, search, carry out, find, prove, be · **To what, where:** M., instructions, MS., convent, copy · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (M., Mount Athos), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg21:1:118 # text = M. Menoides, at the suggestion of M. Villemain, Minister of Public Instruction to King Louis Philippe, had been entrusted with a commission to search for ancient MSS., and in carrying out his instructions he found a MS. at the convent of St. Laura, on Mount Athos, which proved to be a copy of the long suspected and wished-for choliambic version of Babrias. 1 M. M. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 Menoides Menoides PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 suggestion suggestion NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 M. M. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 Villemain Villemain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Minister Minister PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 Public Public PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Instruction instruction NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:desc _ _ 17 Louis Louis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 18 Philippe Philippe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 20 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 entrusted entrust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 commission commission NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 search search VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 MSS MSS PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 34 in in SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 advcl _ _ 36 out out ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 instructions instruction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 MS. MS. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 at at ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 convent convent NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 St. St. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nmod:desc _ _ 48 Laura Laura PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 on on ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 Mount Mount PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 52 Athos Athos PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 54 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 55 nsubj _ _ 55 proved prove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 ccomp _ _ 56 to to PART TO _ 59 mark _ _ 57 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 59 cop _ _ 58 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 copy copy NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obj _ _ 60 of of ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 62 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 63 suspected suspect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 62 acl _ _ 64 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 65 wished wish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 63 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 65 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 67 for for ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 68 choliambic choliambic NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 compound _ _ 69 version version NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 obl _ _ 70 of of ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 71 Babrias Babrias PROPN NNP Number=Sing 69 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 72 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **entrust** | past · perfect · passive | | M. | | | | with a commission | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with commission=Theme | | 2 | **search** | to-infinitive | | | | | | for ancient MSS | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for mss=Theme | | 3 | **carry out** | gerund | M. *not said here* | M.'s instructions | | | | | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Eventuality | | 4 | **find** | past | M. | a MS. | | the convent of Laura St. | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent ms.=Attribute clause=Theme | | 5 | **prove** | past | Mount Athos | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | a copy | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **suspect** | participle | | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **wish** | participle | | | | | | for choliambic version of Babrias | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for version=Theme | | 9 | **suggest** | | M. and Minister of Public Instruction | | | | | to Louis King | nom suggestion «cognition intransitive»: of=agent to=obl | | 10 | **instruct** | | M. | | | | | | nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/117/) - next →: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/119/) - ↑ back to [Literally Translated From the Greek](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/)