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title: During this long period these fables seem to have suffered an eclips… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 58

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During this long period these fables seem to have suffered an eclipse, to have disappeared and to have been forgotten; and it is at the commencement of the fourteenth century, when the Byzantine emperors were the great patrons of learning, and amidst the splendors of an Asiatic court, that we next find honours paid to the name and memory of Æsop.

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**Who acts:** fables, eclipse, Byzantine emperors, we · **What happens:** seem, suffer, disappear, forget, be, find · **To what, where:** eclipse, commencement, great patrons, honours

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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 (fables, eclipse, Byzantine emperors, 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:pg21:1:58
# text = During this long period these fables seem to have suffered an eclipse, to have disappeared and to have been forgotten; and it is at the commencement of the fourteenth century, when the Byzantine emperors were the great patrons of learning, and amidst the splendors of an Asiatic court, that we next find honours paid to the name and memory of Æsop.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	xcomp	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	eclipse	eclipse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	commencement	commencement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	fourteenth	fourteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
34	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	41	advmod	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Byzantine	byzantine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	emperors	emperor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	patrons	patron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	appos	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
46	amidst	amidst	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	splendors	splendor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	Asiatic	asiatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
55	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
56	next	next	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
58	honours	honour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obj	_	_
59	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	58	acl	_	_
60	to	to	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	conj	_	_
65	of	of	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
66	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | this fables |  |  |  | during this long period |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **suffer** | to-infinitive · perfect | this fables *not said here* | a eclipse |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eclipse=Stimulus |
| 3 | **disappear** | to-infinitive · perfect | this fables *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **forget** | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | this fables *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | eclipse |  |  | the commencement | century |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | past | the Byzantine emperors | the great patrons |  |  |  | of learning | tree rules |
| 7 | **find** | present | we | honours |  |  |  | amidst the splendors of a Asiatic court; next *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Topic |
| 8 | **pay** | participle |  | honours *not said here* |  |  |  | to the name and memory of Æsop | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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