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title: 16 (return) [ The claims of Babrias also found a warm advocate in th… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: 16 (return) [ The claims of Babrias also found a warm advocate in the learned Frenchman, M. Bayle, who, in his admirable Dictionary, (_Dictionnaire Historique et Critique de Pierre Bayle_. Who acts: return, Dictionnaire. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 15,
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 42

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16 (return) \[ The claims of Babrias also found a warm advocate in the learned Frenchman, M. Bayle, who, in his admirable Dictionary, (\_Dictionnaire Historique et Critique de Pierre Bayle\_.

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**Who acts:** return, Dictionnaire · **What happens:** find, learn, et, claim · **To what, where:** 16, Critique, Babrias

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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 (return, Dictionnaire), 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:pg21:17:42
# text = 16 (return) [ The claims of Babrias also found a warm advocate in the learned Frenchman, M. Bayle, who, in his admirable Dictionary, (_Dictionnaire Historique et Critique de Pierre Bayle_.
1	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
5	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	claims	claim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Babrias	Babrias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	advocate	advocate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	Frenchman	frenchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
21	Bayle	Bayle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	admirable	admirable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Dictionnaire	Dictionnaire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	Historique	Historique	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
34	et	et	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
35	Critique	critique	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	de	de	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Pierre	Pierre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	Bayle	Bayle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | return | 16 |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advocate=Topic |
| 2 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **et** | past | Dictionnaire | Critique |  |  |  | de Pierre | tree rules |
| 4 | **claim** |  |  | Babrias |  |  |  |  | nom claim «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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