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title: These fables, indeed, were among the first writings of an earlier an… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: These fables, indeed, were among the first writings of an earlier antiquity that attracted attention. Who acts: fables, earlier antiquity. 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 72

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These fables, indeed, were among the first writings of an earlier antiquity that attracted attention.

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**Who acts:** fables, earlier antiquity · **What happens:** be, attract · **To what, where:** attention

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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, earlier antiquity), 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:pg21:1:72
# text = These fables, indeed, were among the first writings of an earlier antiquity that attracted attention.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	writings	writing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	attracted	attract	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this fables |  |  |  |  | among the first writings; of a earlier antiquity | tree rules |
| 2 | **attract** | past | a earlier antiquity | attention |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=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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