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title: Lorenzo Valla, one of the most famous promoters of Italian learning,… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Lorenzo Valla, one of the most famous promoters of Italian learning, not only translated into Latin the Iliad of Homer and the Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, but also the Fables of Æsop. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek, with its depe
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 74

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Lorenzo Valla, one of the most famous promoters of Italian learning, not only translated into Latin the Iliad of Homer and the Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, but also the Fables of Æsop.

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**What happens:** not translate · **To what, where:** Latin

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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: 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:pg21:1:74
# text = Lorenzo Valla, one of the most famous promoters of Italian learning, not only translated into Latin the Iliad of Homer and the Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, but also the Fables of Æsop.
1	Lorenzo	Lorenzo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Valla	Valla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	promoters	promoter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Iliad	Iliad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Homer	Homer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Histories	History	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Herodotus	Herodotus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Thucydides	Thucydides	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	also	also	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **translate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | into Latin  the Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into latin=Result |

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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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