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title: This brought him into immediate contact with the Western Patriarch,… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: This brought him into immediate contact with the Western Patriarch, whose interests he henceforth advocated with so much zeal as to bring on him suspicion and persecution from the rulers of the Eastern Church. Who acts: This. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translate
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 64

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This brought him into immediate contact with the Western Patriarch, whose interests he henceforth advocated with so much zeal as to bring on him suspicion and persecution from the rulers of the Eastern Church.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** bring, advocate · **To what, where:** Maximus, immediate contact, interests, suspicion, rulers

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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 (This), 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:pg21:1:64
# text = This brought him into immediate contact with the Western Patriarch, whose interests he henceforth advocated with so much zeal as to bring on him suspicion and persecution from the rulers of the Eastern Church.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	immediate	immediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Patriarch	patriarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	interests	interest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	advocated	advocate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	zeal	zeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	persecution	persecution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Eastern	Eastern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	35	compound	_	_
35	Church	Church	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **bring** | past | This | Maximus |  | immediate contact with the Western Patriarch |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into contact=Destination |
| 2 | **advocate** | participle · passive |  | interests |  |  |  | with much zeal; henceforth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive |  | suspicion and persecution |  | the rulers of the Eastern Church |  | on Maximus | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent suspicion=Theme on he=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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