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title: He is generally supposed to have been a Greek of Asia Minor, of one… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: He is generally supposed to have been a Greek of Asia Minor, of one of the Ionic Colonies, but the exact period in which he lived and wrote is yet unsettled. Who acts: Babrias. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek, with its dependency tree and th
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 98

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He is generally supposed to have been a Greek of Asia Minor, of one of the Ionic Colonies, but the exact period in which he lived and wrote is yet unsettled.

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**Who acts:** Babrias · **What happens:** suppose, be, live, write, unsettle · **To what, where:** Babrias, Greek, exact period

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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 (Babrias), 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:pg21:1:98
# text = He is generally supposed to have been a Greek of Asia Minor, of one of the Ionic Colonies, but the exact period in which he lived and wrote is yet unsettled.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Greek	Greek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	Minor	Minor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Ionic	ionic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Colonies	Colony	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	unsettled	unsettle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | present · passive |  | Babrias |  |  |  | generally *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive · perfect |  | a Greek |  |  |  | of Asia | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | past | Babrias |  |  | the exact period |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 4 | **write** | past | Babrias *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **unsettle** | present · passive |  | the exact period |  |  | yet |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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