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title: Thus, after an eclipse of many centuries, Babrias shines out as the… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 123

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Thus, after an eclipse of many centuries, Babrias shines out as the earliest, and most reliable collector of veritable Æsopian Fables.

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**Who acts:** Babrias · **What happens:** shine out, eclipse · **To what, where:** most reliable collector, many centuries

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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 (Babrias), 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:pg21:1:123
# text = Thus, after an eclipse of many centuries, Babrias shines out as the earliest, and most reliable collector of veritable Æsopian Fables.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	eclipse	eclipse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	Babrias	Babrias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	shines	shine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
19	reliable	reliable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	collector	collector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	veritable	veritable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	Æsopian	Æsopian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine out** | present | Babrias | most reliable collector of veritable Æsopian Fables |  |  | after a eclipse of many centuries | as the earliest; thus *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **eclipse** |  |  | many centuries |  |  |  |  | nom eclipse «event 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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