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title: These few facts are all that can be relied on with any degree of cer… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: These few facts are all that can be relied on with any degree of certainty, in reference to the birth, life, and death of Æsop. Who acts: Æsop. 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 21

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These few facts are all that can be relied on with any degree of certainty, in reference to the birth, life, and death of Æsop.

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**Who acts:** Æsop · **What happens:** be, rely on, die · **To what, where:** that, few facts, reference

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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 (Æsop), 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:pg21:2:21
# text = These few facts are all that can be relied on with any degree of certainty, in reference to the birth, life, and death of Æsop.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	relied	rely	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	certainty	certainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | that |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rely on** | can · passive |  | this few facts |  | reference to the birth and life |  | with any degree of certainty; death of Æsop *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** |  | Æsop |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event 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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