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title: And again, “C’est donc à Hésiode, que j’aimerais mieux attribuer la… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: And again, “C’est donc à Hésiode, que j’aimerais mieux attribuer la gloire de l’invention; mais sans doute il laissa la chose très imparfaite. Who acts: mais, il. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 14

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And again, “C’est donc à Hésiode, que j’aimerais mieux attribuer la gloire de l’invention; mais sans doute il laissa la chose très imparfaite.

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**Who acts:** mais, il · **What happens:** san, choose · **To what, where:** très imparfaite · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mais, il), 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:pg21:17:14
# text = And again, “C’est donc à Hésiode, que j’aimerais mieux attribuer la gloire de l’invention; mais sans doute il laissa la chose très imparfaite.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	C’est	C'est	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	donc	donc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	à	à	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Hésiode	Hésiode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	que	que	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	compound	_	_
11	j’aimerais	j'aimerais	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	appos	_	_
12	mieux	mieux	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat	_	_
13	attribuer	attribuer	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat:foreign	_	_
14	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat:foreign	_	_
15	gloire	gloire	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	flat	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat	_	_
17	l’invention	l'invention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	mais	mais	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sans	san	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	doute	doute	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	il	il	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	nsubj	_	_
23	laissa	laissa	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	flat:foreign	_	_
24	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	22	flat:foreign	_	_
25	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
26	très	très	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	27	compound	_	_
27	imparfaite	imparfaite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **san** *in a quote* | present | mais |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **choose** *in a quote* | past | il | très imparfaite |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent imparfaite=Theme |

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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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