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title: The first was a request to furnish new morals and applications to a… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The first was a request to furnish new morals and applications to a definite number of fables; Ihe other was a commission to add a large number of additional fables and to make a wholly new translation. Who acts: first, Ihe. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 139

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The first was a request to furnish new morals and applications to a definite number of fables; Ihe other was a commission to add a large number of additional fables and to make a wholly new translation.

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**Who acts:** first, Ihe · **What happens:** be, furnish, add, make · **To what, where:** request, new morals, definite number, commission, large number, new translation

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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 (first, Ihe), 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:pg21:1:139
# text = The first was a request to furnish new morals and applications to a definite number of fables; Ihe other was a commission to add a large number of additional fables and to make a wholly new translation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	furnish	furnish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	morals	moral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	applications	application	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	definite	definite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
19	Ihe	Ihe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	commission	commission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	additional	additional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	wholly	wholly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | past | the first | a request |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **furnish** | to-infinitive |  | new morals and applications | a definite number of fables |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent moral=Theme to number=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Ihe | a commission |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the first *not said here* | a large number of additional fables |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | the first *not said here* | a new translation |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset translation=Product |

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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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