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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 21

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Duplex libelli dos est: quod risum movet, Et quod prudenti vitam consilio monet.

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**Who acts:** Duplex libelli · **What happens:** do, quod · **To what, where:** est, risum movet, prudenti vitam

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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 (Duplex libelli), 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:pg21:1:21
# text = Duplex libelli dos est: quod risum movet, Et quod prudenti vitam consilio monet.
1	Duplex	duplex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	libelli	libelli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dos	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	est	est	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	quod	quod	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	risum	risum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	movet	movet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Et	et	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	quod	quod	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	prudenti	prudenti	X	FW	_	13	compound	_	_
13	vitam	vitam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	consilio	consilio	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	dep	_	_
15	monet	Monet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | Duplex libelli | est |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent est=Eventuality |
| 2 | **quod** | infinitive |  | risum movet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **quod** | infinitive |  | prudenti vitam |  |  |  |  | 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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