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title: They have been translated into the greater number of the languages b… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: They have been translated into the greater number of the languages both of Europe and of the East, and have been read, and will be read, for generations, alike by Jew, Heathen, Mohammedan, and Christian. Who acts: Jew. 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 91

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They have been translated into the greater number of the languages both of Europe and of the East, and have been read, and will be read, for generations, alike by Jew, Heathen, Mohammedan, and Christian.

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**Who acts:** Jew · **What happens:** translate, read · **To what, where:** Scriptures, greater number

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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 (Jew), 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:pg21:1:91
# text = They have been translated into the greater number of the languages both of Europe and of the East, and have been read, and will be read, for generations, alike by Jew, Heathen, Mohammedan, and Christian.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	alike	alike	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Jew	Jew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	Heathen	Heathen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	Mohammedan	Mohammedan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **translate** | present · perfect · passive |  | Scriptures *= scripture* |  |  |  | into the greater number of the languages *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into number=Result |
| 2 | **read** | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **read** | future · passive | Jew and Heathen and Mohammedan |  |  |  | for generations | alike *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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