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title: Socrates is mentioned by Plato[8] as having employed his time while… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Socrates is mentioned by Plato[8] as having employed his time while in prison, awaiting the return of the sacred ship from Delphos which was to be the signal of his death, in turning some of these fables into verse, but he thus versified only such as he remembered. Who acts: Plato, return, Death, sa
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 48

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Socrates is mentioned by Plato\[8\] as having employed his time while in prison, awaiting the return of the sacred ship from Delphos which was to be the signal of his death, in turning some of these fables into verse, but he thus versified only such as he remembered.

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**Who acts:** Plato, return, Death, sacred ship, Delphos · **What happens:** mention, employ, await, be, turn, versify · **To what, where:** Socrates, return, signal, some, verse

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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 (Plato, return, Death, sacred ship), 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:pg21:1:48
# text = Socrates is mentioned by Plato[8] as having employed his time while in prison, awaiting the return of the sacred ship from Delphos which was to be the signal of his death, in turning some of these fables into verse, but he thus versified only such as he remembered.
1	Socrates	socrates	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Plato	Plato	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	aux	_	_
11	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	awaiting	await	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Delphos	Delphos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
39	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
42	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	into	into	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	versified	versify	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
50	only	only	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	49	xcomp	_	_
52	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mention** *speech: other* | present · passive | Plato | Socrates |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 2 | **employ** | gerund · perfect | Plato *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **await** | gerund | Plato *not said here* | the return of the sacred ship from Delphos and the signal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the return of the sacred ship from Delphos and the signal | the signal |  |  |  | of Delphos's death | tree rules |
| 5 | **turn** | gerund | Plato *not said here* | some |  | verse |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent some=Theme into verse=Trajectory |
| 6 | **versify** | past | Death |  |  |  |  | such, thus *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **remember** | past | Death |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **return** |  | the sacred ship from Delphos |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 9 | **die** |  | Delphos |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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