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title: At one time he is found in Corinth, and at another in Athens, endeav… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: At one time he is found in Corinth, and at another in Athens, endeavouring, by the narration of some of his wise fables, to reconcile the inhabitants of those cities to the administration of their respective rulers Periander and Pisistratus. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Lif
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 12

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At one time he is found in Corinth, and at another in Athens, endeavouring, by the narration of some of his wise fables, to reconcile the inhabitants of those cities to the administration of their respective rulers Periander and Pisistratus.

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**What happens:** find, endeavour, reconcile, administer · **To what, where:** Phrygian, Corinth, inhabitants, respective rulers

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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: 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:pg21:2:12
# text = At one time he is found in Corinth, and at another in Athens, endeavouring, by the narration of some of his wise fables, to reconcile the inhabitants of those cities to the administration of their respective rulers Periander and Pisistratus.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Corinth	Corinth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	aux	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	endeavouring	endeavour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	narration	narration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	reconcile	reconcile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	administration	administration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	respective	respective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	rulers	ruler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
42	Periander	Periander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	Pisistratus	Pisistratus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · passive |  | Phrygian |  | Corinth | time |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **endeavour** |  |  |  |  |  |  | by the narration of some | tree rules |
| 3 | **reconcile** | to-infinitive |  | the inhabitants of that cities |  |  |  | to the administration of inhabitants's respective rulers | tree rules |
| 4 | **administer** |  |  | inhabitants's respective rulers |  |  |  |  | nom administration «act 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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