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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 120

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This discovery attracted very general attention, not only as confirming, in a singular manner, the conjectures so boldly made by a long chain of critics, but as bringing to light valuable literary treasures tending to establish the reputation, and to confirm the antiquity and authenticity of the great mass of Æsopian Fable.

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**Who acts:** discovery, valuable literary treasures · **What happens:** attract, not confirm, make, bring, tend, establish · **To what, where:** general attention, singular manner, conjectures, valuable literary treasures, light, reputation

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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 (discovery, valuable literary treasures), 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:pg21:1:120
# text = This discovery attracted very general attention, not only as confirming, in a singular manner, the conjectures so boldly made by a long chain of critics, but as bringing to light valuable literary treasures tending to establish the reputation, and to confirm the antiquity and authenticity of the great mass of Æsopian Fable.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	attracted	attract	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	confirming	confirm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	conjectures	conjecture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	appos	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	critics	critic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
38	tending	tend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	acl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	establish	establish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	reputation	reputation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	confirm	confirm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	authenticity	authenticity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	Æsopian	Æsopian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
57	Fable	Fable	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **attract** | past | this discovery | general attention |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **confirm** | gerund | this discovery *not said here* |  |  | a singular manner |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | the conjectures *not said here* |  |  |  | by a long chain of critics; boldly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **bring** | gerund | this discovery *not said here* | valuable literary treasures |  | light |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme to light=Destination |
| 5 | **tend** | gerund | valuable literary treasures *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **establish** | to-infinitive | valuable literary treasures *not said here* | the reputation |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reputation=Patient |
| 7 | **confirm** | to-infinitive | this discovery *not said here* | the antiquity of the great mass of Æsopian and authenticity |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot antiquity=Topic |

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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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