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title: Avienus, also a contemporary of Ausonius, put some of these fables i… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Avienus, also a contemporary of Ausonius, put some of these fables into Latin elegiacs, which are given by Nevelet (in a book we shall refer to hereafter), and are occasionally incorporated with the editions of Phædrus. Who acts: you, Nevelet, we. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aeso
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 56

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Avienus, also a contemporary of Ausonius, put some of these fables into Latin elegiacs, which are given by Nevelet (in a book we shall refer to hereafter), and are occasionally incorporated with the editions of Phædrus.

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**Who acts:** you, Nevelet, we · **What happens:** put, give, refer, incorporate · **To what, where:** some, Latin elegiacs, book, hereafter

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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 (you, Nevelet, we), 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:pg21:1:56
# text = Avienus, also a contemporary of Ausonius, put some of these fables into Latin elegiacs, which are given by Nevelet (in a book we shall refer to hereafter), and are occasionally incorporated with the editions of Phædrus.
1	Avienus	Avienus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Ausonius	Ausonius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Latin	Latin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	elegiacs	elegiac	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Nevelet	Nevelet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	refer	refer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	hereafter	hereafter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
36	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	incorporated	incorporate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	editions	edition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Phædrus	Phædrus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | some |  | Latin elegiacs |  | Avienus *vocative* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent some=Goal |
| 2 | **give** | present · passive | Nevelet | Latin elegiacs |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **refer** | shall | we | a book *not said here* | hereafter |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent book=Theme to hereafter=Recipient |
| 4 | **incorporate** | present · passive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the editions of Phædrus; occasionally *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: with edition=Co-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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