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title: Phædrus, a slave by birth or by subsequent misfortunes, and admitted… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Phædrus, a slave by birth or by subsequent misfortunes, and admitted by Augustus to the honours of a freedman, imitated many of these fables in Latin iambics about the commencement of the Christian era. Who acts: Phædrus. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated Fr
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 50

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Phædrus, a slave by birth or by subsequent misfortunes, and admitted by Augustus to the honours of a freedman, imitated many of these fables in Latin iambics about the commencement of the Christian era.

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**Who acts:** Phædrus · **What happens:** admit, imitate, honour · **To what, where:** honours, many, freedman

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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 (Phædrus), 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:pg21:1:50
# text = Phædrus, a slave by birth or by subsequent misfortunes, and admitted by Augustus to the honours of a freedman, imitated many of these fables in Latin iambics about the commencement of the Christian era.
1	Phædrus	Phædrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	admitted	admit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Augustus	Augustus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	honours	honour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	freedman	freedman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
23	imitated	imitate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Latin	Latin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	iambics	iambic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	about	about	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	commencement	commencement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	era	era	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **admit** *speech: other* | participle |  |  | the honours of a freedman |  |  | by Augustus | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to honour=Recipient |
| 2 | **imitate** | past | Phædrus or subsequent misfortunes | many of this fables in Latin iambics about the commencement of the Christian era |  |  |  |  | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme |
| 3 | **honour** |  |  | a freedman |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state 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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