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title: Paris, 1820,) gives additional arguments in confirmation of the opin… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Paris, 1820,) gives additional arguments in confirmation of the opinions of his learned predecessors, Nevelet and Vavassor.] Who acts: Paris. 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 43

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Paris, 1820,) gives additional arguments in confirmation of the opinions of his learned predecessors, Nevelet and Vavassor.\]

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**Who acts:** Paris · **What happens:** give, learn, confirm, opine · **To what, where:** additional arguments, confirmation, opinions, learned predecessors

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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 (Paris), 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:pg21:17:43
# text = Paris, 1820,) gives additional arguments in confirmation of the opinions of his learned predecessors, Nevelet and Vavassor.]
1	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	1820	1820	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	_
6	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	additional	additional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	arguments	argument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	confirmation	confirmation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	opinions	opinion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	predecessors	predecessor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Nevelet	Nevelet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Vavassor	Vavassor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Paris | additional arguments |  | confirmation of the opinions of Paris's learned predecessors |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Theme |
| 2 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **confirm** |  |  | the opinions of Paris's learned predecessors |  |  |  |  | nom confirmation «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **opine** |  |  | Paris's learned predecessors |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition 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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