--- title: Although the honour thus claimed cannot be definitely assigned to an… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: Although the honour thus claimed cannot be definitely assigned to any one of these places, yet there are a few incidents now generally accepted by scholars as established facts, relating to the birth, life, and death of Æsop. Who acts: honour, scholars, Æsop. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fab --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/2/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Three hundred Aesop’s fables](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/) / [Life of Aesop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/2/) / 3 # Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 3 Although the honour thus claimed cannot be definitely assigned to any one of these places, yet there are a few incidents now generally accepted by scholars as established facts, relating to the birth, life, and death of Æsop. **Who acts:** honour, scholars, Æsop · **What happens:** claim, not assign, accept, establish, relate, die · **To what, where:** honour, one, death 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 (honour, scholars, Æsop), 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:pg21:2:3 # text = Although the honour thus claimed cannot be definitely assigned to any one of these places, yet there are a few incidents now generally accepted by scholars as established facts, relating to the birth, life, and death of Æsop. 1 Although although SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 thus thus ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 claimed claim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux:pass _ _ 9 definitely definitely ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 assigned assign VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 advcl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 13 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 20 expl _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 incidents incident NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 24 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 25 generally generally ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 accepted accept VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 27 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 scholars scholar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl:agent _ _ 29 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 established establish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ _ 31 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 relating relate VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 Æsop Æsop PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | the honour *not said here* | | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **assign** | can · passive | | the honour | any one of this places | | | definitely *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to one=Goal | | 3 | **accept** | present · passive | scholars | death of Æsop | | | now | as established facts; generally *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent as fact=Attribute | | 4 | **establish** | participle | | | | | | | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **relate** | gerund | scholars *not said here* | | | | | to the birth and life | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to birth=Co-Theme | | 6 | **die** | | Æsop | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/2/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/2/4/) - ↑ back to [Life of Aesop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/2/)