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title: They took their place beside the Holy Scriptures and the ancient cla… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: They took their place beside the Holy Scriptures and the ancient classic authors, in the minds of the great students of that day. Who acts: calamities. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 73

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They took their place beside the Holy Scriptures and the ancient classic authors, in the minds of the great students of that day.

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**Who acts:** calamities · **What happens:** take, mind · **To what, where:** place, Holy Scriptures, great students

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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 (calamities), 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:pg21:1:73
# text = They took their place beside the Holy Scriptures and the ancient classic authors, in the minds of the great students of that day.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	8	compound	_	_
8	Scriptures	Scripture	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	classic	classic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	authors	author	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | calamities *= calamity* | calamities's place |  | the Holy Scriptures and the ancient classic authors |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 2 | **mind** |  |  | the great students of that day |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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**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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