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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 95

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Nevelet intimates an opinion, that a writer named Babrias would be found to be the veritable author of the existing form of Æsopian Fables.

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**Who acts:** Nevelet · **What happens:** intimate, name, find, be, exist, form · **To what, where:** opinion, writer, veritable author, Æsopian Fables

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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 (Nevelet), 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:pg21:1:95
# text = Nevelet intimates an opinion, that a writer named Babrias would be found to be the veritable author of the existing form of Æsopian Fables.
1	Nevelet	Nevelet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	intimates	intimate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	Babrias	Babrias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	veritable	veritable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	existing	exist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	Æsopian	æsopian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intimate** *speech: other* | present | Nevelet | a opinion |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent opinion=Topic |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a writer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | would · passive |  | a writer |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the veritable author |  |  |  | of the existing form of Æsopian Fables | tree rules |
| 5 | **exist** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **form** |  |  | Æsopian Fables |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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