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title: The later investigations of a host of English and German scholars ha… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The later investigations of a host of English and German scholars have added very little to the facts given by M. Mezeriac. 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 24

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The later investigations of a host of English and German scholars have added very little to the facts given by M. Mezeriac.

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**What happens:** add, give, investigate · **To what, where:** later investigations, facts, host

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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:pg21:2:24
# text = The later investigations of a host of English and German scholars have added very little to the facts given by M. Mezeriac.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	later	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	investigations	investigation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	scholars	scholar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl:agent	_	_
22	Mezeriac	Mezeriac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | the later investigations of a host of English and German scholars |  |  |  | to the facts; little *obl:unmarked* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to fact=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  | the facts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **investigate** |  |  | a host of English and German scholars |  |  |  |  | nom investigation «cognition 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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