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title: 15 (return) [ Vavassor’s treatise, entitled “De Ludicrâ Dictione” wa… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: 15 (return) [ Vavassor’s treatise, entitled “De Ludicrâ Dictione” was written A.D. Who acts: treatise. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 37

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15 (return) \[ Vavassor’s treatise, entitled “De Ludicrâ Dictione” was written A.D.

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**Who acts:** treatise · **What happens:** entitle, write · **To what, where:** 15 return

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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 (treatise), 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:pg21:17:37
# text = 15 (return) [ Vavassor’s treatise, entitled “De Ludicrâ Dictione” was written A.D.
1	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
5	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
6	Vavassor	Vavassor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	treatise	treatise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	entitled	entitle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Ludicrâ	Ludicrâ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Dictione	Dictione	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	A.D	A.D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entitle** | past | Vavassor's treatise *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** | past · passive |  | 15 return |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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