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title: Phædrus, the great imitator of Æsop, plainly indicates this double p… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Phædrus, the great imitator of Æsop, plainly indicates this double purpose to be the true office of the writer of fables. Who acts: Phædrus. 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 20

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Phædrus, the great imitator of Æsop, plainly indicates this double purpose to be the true office of the writer of fables.

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**Who acts:** Phædrus · **What happens:** indicate, be · **To what, where:** double purpose, true office

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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 (Phædrus), 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:pg21:1:20
# text = Phædrus, the great imitator of Æsop, plainly indicates this double purpose to be the true office of the writer of fables.
1	Phædrus	Phædrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	imitator	imitator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	indicates	indicate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **indicate** | present | Phædrus | this double purpose |  |  |  | plainly *property* | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot purpose=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the true office |  |  |  | of the writer of fables | tree rules |

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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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