--- title: They found a most worthy editor in the late distinguished Sir George… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: They found a most worthy editor in the late distinguished Sir George Cornewall Lewis, and a translator equally qualified for his task, in the Reverend James Davies, M.A., sometime a scholar of Lincoln College, Oxford, and himself a relation of their English editor. Who acts: treasures, translator. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (treasures, translator), 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:pg21:1:122 # text = They found a most worthy editor in the late distinguished Sir George Cornewall Lewis, and a translator equally qualified for his task, in the Reverend James Davies, M.A., sometime a scholar of Lincoln College, Oxford, and himself a relation of their English editor. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 5 advmod _ _ 5 worthy worthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 editor editor NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 9 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 10 distinguished distinguished ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:desc _ _ 12 George George PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 13 Cornewall Cornewall PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 14 Lewis Lewis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 translator translator NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 equally equally ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 qualified qualified ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 acl:relcl _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 task task NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 Reverend Reverend PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 28 James James PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 flat _ _ 29 Davies Davies PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 M.A M.A PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 sometime sometime ADV RB PronType=Ind 36 advmod _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 scholar scholar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 Lincoln Lincoln PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 College College PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 Oxford Oxford PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 2 obl _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 relation relation NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 49 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 editor editor NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | treasures *= treasure* | a worthy editor | | the late distinguished George Sir | | a scholar of Lincoln College and Oxford *obl*; translator *obl* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent editor=Theme relation=Attribute | | 2 | **task** | | translator | | | | | | nom task «act 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 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/121/) - next →: [sentence 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/123/) - ↑ back to [Literally Translated From the Greek](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/)