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title: Thus, the fable of the “Hawk and the Nightingale” is related by Hesi… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus, the fable of the “Hawk and the Nightingale” is related by Hesiod;[4] the “Eagle wounded by an Arrow, winged with its own feathers,” by Æschylus;[5] the “Fox avenging his wrongs on the Eagle,” by Archilochus. Who acts: Hesiod, 5. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally 
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 44

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Thus, the fable of the “Hawk and the Nightingale” is related by Hesiod;\[4\] the “Eagle wounded by an Arrow, winged with its own feathers,” by Æschylus;\[5\] the “Fox avenging his wrongs on the Eagle,” by Archilochus.

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**Who acts:** Hesiod, 5 · **What happens:** relate, wound, wing, avenge · **To what, where:** fable, Eagle, Arrow, wrongs

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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 (Hesiod, 5), 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:pg21:1:44
# text = Thus, the fable of the “Hawk and the Nightingale” is related by Hesiod;[4] the “Eagle wounded by an Arrow, winged with its own feathers,” by Æschylus;[5] the “Fox avenging his wrongs on the Eagle,” by Archilochus.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	related	relate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Hesiod	Hesiod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
24	wounded	wound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	winged	wing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Æschylus	Æschylus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	45	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	40	punct	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	avenging	avenge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	advcl	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	wrongs	wrong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	50	punct	_	_
53	by	by	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	Archilochus	Archilochus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **relate** | present · passive | Hesiod | the fable of the Hawk and the Nightingale |  |  |  | by Æschylus; thus *property* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **wound** *in a quote* | participle |  | Eagle *not said here* |  |  |  | by a Arrow | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **wing** *in a quote* | participle |  | a Arrow *not said here* |  |  |  | with Arrow's own feathers | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **avenge** *in a quote* | gerund | 5 | Fox's wrongs |  |  |  | on the Eagle; by Archilochus | 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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