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title: Aphthonius, a rhetorician of Antioch, A.D. — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Aphthonius, a rhetorician of Antioch, A.D. 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 51

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Aphthonius, a rhetorician of Antioch, A.D.

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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:pg21:1:51
# text = Aphthonius, a rhetorician of Antioch, A.D.
1	Aphthonius	Aphthonius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rhetorician	rhetorician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Antioch	Antioch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	A.D	A.D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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