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title: Martin Luther translated twenty of these fables, and was urged by Me… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Martin Luther translated twenty of these fables, and was urged by Melancthon to complete the whole; while Gottfried Arnold, the celebrated Lutheran theologian, and librarian to Frederick I., king of Prussia, mentions that the great Reformer valued the Fables of Æsop next after the Holy Scriptures. W
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 82

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Martin Luther translated twenty of these fables, and was urged by Melancthon to complete the whole; while Gottfried Arnold, the celebrated Lutheran theologian, and librarian to Frederick I., king of Prussia, mentions that the great Reformer valued the Fables of Æsop next after the Holy Scriptures.

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**Who acts:** Martin, Melancthon, great Reformer · **What happens:** translate, urge, complete, celebrate, value · **To what, where:** twenty, whole, mentions

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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 (Martin, Melancthon, great Reformer), 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:pg21:1:82
# text = Martin Luther translated twenty of these fables, and was urged by Melancthon to complete the whole; while Gottfried Arnold, the celebrated Lutheran theologian, and librarian to Frederick I., king of Prussia, mentions that the great Reformer valued the Fables of Æsop next after the Holy Scriptures.
1	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Luther	Luther	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	translated	translate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	urged	urge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Melancthon	Melancthon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	complete	complete	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	Gottfried	Gottfried	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
21	Arnold	Arnold	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
25	Lutheran	Lutheran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	theologian	theologian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	librarian	librarian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Prussia	Prussia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	mentions	mention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
39	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	obj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	Reformer	Reformer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	valued	value	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	Fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
48	next	next	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
49	after	after	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	_	52	compound	_	_
52	Scriptures	Scripture	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **translate** | past | Martin | twenty of this fables |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twenty=Patient |
| 2 | **urge** | past · passive | Melancthon |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **complete** | to-infinitive | Melancthon *not said here* | the whole |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=Eventuality |
| 4 | **celebrate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **value** | past | the great Reformer | mentions |  |  | after the Holy Scriptures | next *property* | tree rules |

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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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