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title: [3] An equal amount of praise is due for the consistency with which… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: [3] An equal amount of praise is due for the consistency with which the characters of the animals, fictitiously introduced, are marked. Who acts: equal amount. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 37

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\[3\] An equal amount of praise is due for the consistency with which the characters of the animals, fictitiously introduced, are marked.

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**Who acts:** equal amount · **What happens:** be, introduce, mark, amount · **To what, where:** characters, praise

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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 (equal amount), 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:pg21:1:37
# text = [3] An equal amount of praise is due for the consistency with which the characters of the animals, fictitiously introduced, are marked.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	consistency	consistency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	fictitiously	fictitiously	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a equal amount of praise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the consistency; due *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **introduce** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | fictitiously *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **mark** | present · passive |  | the characters of the animals |  |  |  | with the consistency | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with which=Theme |
| 4 | **amount** |  |  | praise |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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