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title: In 1327 A.D. he was sent on a diplomatic mission to Venice by the Em… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1327 A.D. he was sent on a diplomatic mission to Venice by the Emperor Andronicus the Elder. Who acts: Emperor Andronicus. 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 63

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In 1327 A.D. he was sent on a diplomatic mission to Venice by the Emperor Andronicus the Elder.

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**Who acts:** Emperor Andronicus · **What happens:** send · **To what, where:** Maximus, Venice, 1327

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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 (Emperor Andronicus), 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:pg21:1:63
# text = In 1327 A.D. he was sent on a diplomatic mission to Venice by the Emperor Andronicus the Elder.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1327	1327	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	A.D	A.D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	diplomatic	diplomatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	mission	mission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Andronicus	Andronicus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Elder	Elder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive | the Emperor Andronicus | Maximus | Venice | 1327  A.D |  | on a diplomatic mission | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 1327=Destination |

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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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