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title: Neither did the great fabulist lack posthumous honours; for a statue… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Neither did the great fabulist lack posthumous honours; for a statue was erected to his memory at Athens, the work of Lysippus, one of the most famous of Greek sculptors. Who acts: great fabulist, Lysippus. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Life of Aesop, with its dependency tre
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 18

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Neither did the great fabulist lack posthumous honours; for a statue was erected to his memory at Athens, the work of Lysippus, one of the most famous of Greek sculptors.

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**Who acts:** great fabulist, Lysippus · **What happens:** do, lack, erect, work · **To what, where:** posthumous honours

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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 (great fabulist, Lysippus), 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:pg21:2:18
# text = Neither did the great fabulist lack posthumous honours; for a statue was erected to his memory at Athens, the work of Lysippus, one of the most famous of Greek sculptors.
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fabulist	fabulist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lack	lack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	posthumous	posthumous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	honours	honour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	erected	erect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Lysippus	Lysippus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	30	advmod	_	_
30	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	sculptors	sculptor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lack** | present | the great fabulist | posthumous honours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **erect** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | for a statue; to fabulist's memory at Athens and the work of Lysippus | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for statue=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **work** |  | Lysippus |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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