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title: This volume of Nevelet forms a complete “Corpus Fabularum Æsopicarum… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: This volume of Nevelet forms a complete “Corpus Fabularum Æsopicarum;” and to his labours Æsop owes his restoration to universal favour as one of the wise moralists and great teachers of mankind. Who acts: volume, Æsop. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 89

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This volume of Nevelet forms a complete “Corpus Fabularum Æsopicarum;” and to his labours Æsop owes his restoration to universal favour as one of the wise moralists and great teachers of mankind.

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**Who acts:** volume, Æsop · **What happens:** form, owe · **To what, where:** complete Fabularum Æsopicarum, restoration, labours

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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 (volume, Æsop), 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:pg21:1:89
# text = This volume of Nevelet forms a complete “Corpus Fabularum Æsopicarum;” and to his labours Æsop owes his restoration to universal favour as one of the wise moralists and great teachers of mankind.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Nevelet	Nevelet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Corpus	Corpus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Fabularum	Fabularum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Æsopicarum	Æsopicarum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	labours	labour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
18	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	owes	owe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	restoration	restoration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	moralists	moralist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present | this volume of Nevelet | a complete Fabularum Æsopicarum |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location æsopicarum=Theme |
| 2 | **owe** | present | Æsop | volume's restoration |  |  |  | to volume's labours *goal*; to universal favour; as one of the wise moralists and great teachers of mankind | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent restoration=Theme to labour=Goal |

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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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