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title: Demetrius Phalereus, a philosopher at Athens about 300 B.C., is said… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Demetrius Phalereus, a philosopher at Athens about 300 B.C., is said to have made the first collection of these fables. 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 49

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Demetrius Phalereus, a philosopher at Athens about 300 B.C., is said to have made the first collection of these fables.

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**What happens:** say, make · **To what, where:** Demetrius, first collection · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:pg21:1:49
# text = Demetrius Phalereus, a philosopher at Athens about 300 B.C., is said to have made the first collection of these fables.
1	Demetrius	Demetrius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	Phalereus	Phalereus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	philosopher	philosopher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
10	B.C	B.C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | Demetrius |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive · perfect |  | the first collection of this fables |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset collection=Product |

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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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