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title: 20 (return) [ M. Bayle thus characterises this Life of Æsop by Planu… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: 20 (return) [ M. Bayle thus characterises this Life of Æsop by Planudes, “Tous les habiles gens conviennent que c’est un roman, et que les absurdités grossières qui l’on y trouve le rendent indigne de toute créance.” Who acts: 20, Tous. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s 
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 51

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20 (return) \[ M. Bayle thus characterises this Life of Æsop by Planudes, “Tous les habiles gens conviennent que c’est un roman, et que les absurdités grossières qui l’on y trouve le rendent indigne de toute créance.”

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**Who acts:** 20, Tous · **What happens:** characteris, habile · **To what, where:** Life, conviennent c’est · **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 (20, Tous), 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:pg21:17:51
# text = 20 (return) [ M. Bayle thus characterises this Life of Æsop by Planudes, “Tous les habiles gens conviennent que c’est un roman, et que les absurdités grossières qui l’on y trouve le rendent indigne de toute créance.”
1	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
5	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
6	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	Bayle	Bayle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	Life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Planudes	Planude	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Tous	Tous	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	20	nsubj	_	_
19	les	les	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	18	flat:foreign	_	_
20	habiles	habile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	parataxis	_	_
21	gens	gen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	conviennent	conviennent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	que	que	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	nsubj	_	_
24	c’est	c'	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	nmod	_	_
25	un	un	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	roman	roman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	et	et	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	que	que	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	les	le	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	parataxis	_	_
31	absurdités	absurdités	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	30	conj	_	_
32	grossières	grossières	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	flat:foreign	_	_
33	qui	qui	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	flat:foreign	_	_
34	l’on	l'on	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	flat:foreign	_	_
35	y	y	X	FW	_	31	flat:foreign	_	_
36	trouve	trouve	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	31	flat:foreign	_	_
37	le	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	39	compound	_	_
38	rendent	rendent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	indigne	indigne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
40	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	39	flat:foreign	_	_
41	toute	toute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	créance	créance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **characteris** | present | 20 | this Life of Æsop |  |  |  | by Planudes; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **habile** *in a quote* |  | Tous | conviennent c’est |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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