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title: The true fabulist, therefore, discharges a most important function. — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The true fabulist, therefore, discharges a most important function. Who acts: true fabulist. 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 15

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The true fabulist, therefore, discharges a most important function.

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**Who acts:** true fabulist · **What happens:** discharge · **To what, where:** important function

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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 (true fabulist), 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:pg21:1:15
# text = The true fabulist, therefore, discharges a most important function.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fabulist	fabulist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	discharges	discharge	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	function	function	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discharge** | present | the true fabulist | a important function |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent function=Theme |

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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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