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title: The Publishers therefore ground their first claim for public approva… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Publishers therefore ground their first claim for public approval on the necessity of a new translation. Who acts: Publishers. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 130

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The Publishers therefore ground their first claim for public approval on the necessity of a new translation.

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**Who acts:** Publishers · **What happens:** claim · **To what, where:** necessity

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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 (Publishers), 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:pg21:1:130
# text = The Publishers therefore ground their first claim for public approval on the necessity of a new translation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Publishers	publisher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	approval	approval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	necessity	necessity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claim** |  | Publishers *= publisher* |  |  | the necessity of a new translation |  | for public approval | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent for=obl on=place |

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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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