--- title: They were first brought to light, after a patient search and diligen… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: They were first brought to light, after a patient search and diligent perusal of ancient authors, by a Frenchman, M. Claude Gaspard Bachet de Mezeriac, who declined the honour of being tutor to Louis XIII. of France, from his desire to devote himself exclusively to literature. 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Claude Gaspard Bachet de Mezeriac, who declined the honour of being tutor to Louis XIII. of France, from his desire to devote himself exclusively to literature. **Who acts:** patient search, France · **What happens:** bring, decline, be, devote, peruse, desire · **To what, where:** facts, light, honour, ancient authors 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 (patient search, France), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg21:2:22 # text = They were first brought to light, after a patient search and diligent perusal of ancient authors, by a Frenchman, M. Claude Gaspard Bachet de Mezeriac, who declined the honour of being tutor to Louis XIII. of France, from his desire to devote himself exclusively to literature. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 3 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 advmod _ _ 4 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 after after ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 patient patient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 diligent diligent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 perusal perusal NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 authors author NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Frenchman frenchman NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 M. M. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 Claude Claude PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 25 Gaspard Gaspard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ _ 26 Bachet Bachet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ _ 27 de de PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ _ 28 Mezeriac Mezeriac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 declined decline VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 cop _ _ 36 tutor tutor NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 Louis Louis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nmod:unmarked _ _ 39 XIII XIII NUM CD NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 from from ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 devote devote VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 acl _ _ 49 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 48 obj _ _ 50 exclusively exclusively ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 51 to to ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 literature literature NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | past · passive | | facts *= fact* | | light | after a patient search and diligent perusal of ancient authors and a Frenchman and M. Claude | of France; first *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme to light=Destination of france=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **decline** | past | a patient search and diligent perusal of ancient authors and a Frenchman and M. Claude | the honour | | | | to XIII Louis | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient honour=Extent to xiii=Result | | 3 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | of tutor | tree rules | | 4 | **devote** | to-infinitive | | honour | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **peruse** | | | ancient authors | | | | | nom perusal «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **desire** | | France | | | | | | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/2/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/2/23/) - ↑ back to [Life of Aesop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/2/)