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title: The Life and History of Æsop is involved, like that of Homer, the mo… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Life and History of Æsop is involved, like that of Homer, the most famous of Greek poets, in much obscurity. Who acts: Life. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Life of Aesop, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 1

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The Life and History of Æsop is involved, like that of Homer, the most famous of Greek poets, in much obscurity.

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**Who acts:** Life · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Life of Aesop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Life), 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:pg21:2:1
# text = The Life and History of Æsop is involved, like that of Homer, the most famous of Greek poets, in much obscurity.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Life	Life	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	History	History	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	involved	involved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Homer	Homer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	poets	poet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	obscurity	obscurity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Life of Æsop and History |  |  |  |  | of Homer; involved *property* | 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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