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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 68

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Planudes may have invented some few fables, or have inserted some that were current in his day; but there is an abundance of unanswerable internal evidence to prove that he had an acquaintance with the veritable fables of Æsop, although the versions he had access to were probably corrupt, as contained in the various translations and disquisitional exercises of the rhetoricians and philosophers.

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**Who acts:** some, abundance, versions · **What happens:** invent, insert, be, prove, have, access · **To what, where:** Planudes, acquaintance, versions, various translations, rhetoricians

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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 (some, abundance, versions), 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:pg21:1:68
# text = Planudes may have invented some few fables, or have inserted some that were current in his day; but there is an abundance of unanswerable internal evidence to prove that he had an acquaintance with the veritable fables of Æsop, although the versions he had access to were probably corrupt, as contained in the various translations and disquisitional exercises of the rhetoricians and philosophers.
1	Planudes	planude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	inserted	insert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	unanswerable	unanswerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	internal	internal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	veritable	veritable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
43	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	access	access	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	acl:relcl	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	obl	_	_
50	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
51	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	corrupt	corrupt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
55	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	conj	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	translations	translation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
61	disquisitional	disquisitional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	exercises	exercise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	conj	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	rhetoricians	rhetorician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	nmod	_	_
66	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
67	philosophers	philosopher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invent** | may · perfect · passive |  | Planudes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **insert** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | some |  |  |  | day | current *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | present | a abundance of unanswerable internal evidence |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **prove** | to-infinitive | a abundance of unanswerable internal evidence *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | past | abundance | a acquaintance |  |  |  | with the veritable fables of Æsop | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acquaintance=Patient |
| 7 | **access** | past · perfect | abundance | the versions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | past | the versions |  |  |  |  | corrupt, probably *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **contain** | participle | the versions *not said here* |  |  | the various translations and disquisitional exercises of the rhetoricians and philosophers |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in translation=Location |
| 10 | **exercise** |  |  | the rhetoricians and philosophers |  |  |  |  | nom exercise «act transitive»: of=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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