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description: They boldly assert that the new light thrown upon these fables by the discovery of the metrical version by Babrias, renders a new translation an inevitable necessity. Who acts: grounds, new light. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek, with its de
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 125

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They boldly assert that the new light thrown upon these fables by the discovery of the metrical version by Babrias, renders a new translation an inevitable necessity.

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**Who acts:** grounds, new light · **What happens:** assert, throw, render, discover · **To what, where:** new light, fables, new translation, metrical version

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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 (grounds, new light), 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:pg21:1:125
# text = They boldly assert that the new light thrown upon these fables by the discovery of the metrical version by Babrias, renders a new translation an inevitable necessity.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	assert	assert	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
8	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	metrical	metrical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Babrias	Babrias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
22	renders	render	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	inevitable	inevitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	necessity	necessity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assert** | present | grounds |  |  |  |  | boldly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **throw** | participle |  | the new light *not said here* |  | this fables |  | by the discovery of the metrical version by Babrias | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon fable=Destination |
| 3 | **render** | present | the new light | a new translation |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent translation=Recipient necessity=Theme |
| 4 | **discover** |  |  | the metrical version by Babrias |  |  |  |  | nom discovery «act 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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