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title: It remains to state, that prior to this publication of M. Mezeriac,… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: It remains to state, that prior to this publication of M. Mezeriac, the life of Æsop was from the pen of Maximus Planudes, a monk of Constantinople, who was sent on an embassy to Venice by the Byzantine Emperor Andronicus the elder, and who wrote in the early part of the fourteenth century. Who acts
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 26

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It remains to state, that prior to this publication of M. Mezeriac, the life of Æsop was from the pen of Maximus Planudes, a monk of Constantinople, who was sent on an embassy to Venice by the Byzantine Emperor Andronicus the elder, and who wrote in the early part of the fourteenth century.

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**Who acts:** inquiry, life, Byzantine Emperor Andronicus · **What happens:** remain, be, send, write, publish · **To what, where:** pen, monk, Venice, embassy, early part, M.

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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 (inquiry, life, Byzantine Emperor Andronicus), 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:pg21:2:26
# text = It remains to state, that prior to this publication of M. Mezeriac, the life of Æsop was from the pen of Maximus Planudes, a monk of Constantinople, who was sent on an embassy to Venice by the Byzantine Emperor Andronicus the elder, and who wrote in the early part of the fourteenth century.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
7	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	publication	publication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	Mezeriac	Mezeriac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	Maximus	Maximus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Planudes	Planude	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	embassy	embassy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Venice	Venice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	Byzantine	Byzantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
43	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	Andronicus	Andronicus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
50	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	fourteenth	fourteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | present | inquiry |  |  |  |  | to state prior this publication of M. | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the life of Æsop |  |  | the pen |  | of Maximus Planudes | tree rules |
| 3 | **send** | past · passive | the Byzantine Emperor Andronicus | a monk of Constantinople | Venice | a embassy |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination elder=Theme |
| 4 | **write** | past |  |  |  | the early part of the fourteenth century |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in part=Destination |
| 5 | **publish** |  |  | M. |  |  |  |  | nom publication «communication 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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