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title: They are, at the present time, not only engrafted into the literatur… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: They are, at the present time, not only engrafted into the literature of the civilized world, but are familiar as household words in the common intercourse and daily conversation of the inhabitants of all countries. Who acts: Scriptures, inhabitants. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by A
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 92

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They are, at the present time, not only engrafted into the literature of the civilized world, but are familiar as household words in the common intercourse and daily conversation of the inhabitants of all countries.

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**Who acts:** Scriptures, inhabitants · **What happens:** be, not engraft, converse · **To what, where:** present time, literature

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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 (Scriptures, inhabitants), 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:pg21:1:92
# text = They are, at the present time, not only engrafted into the literature of the civilized world, but are familiar as household words in the common intercourse and daily conversation of the inhabitants of all countries.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	engrafted	engraft	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	civilized	civilized	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	intercourse	intercourse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | present | Scriptures *= scripture* |  |  |  | at the present time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **engraft** | participle |  | the present time *not said here* |  | the literature of the civilized world |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as household words in the common intercourse and daily conversation of the inhabitants of all countries; familiar *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **converse** |  | the inhabitants of all countries |  |  |  |  |  | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: of=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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