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title: He is, by an almost universal consent, allowed to have been born abo… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: He is, by an almost universal consent, allowed to have been born about the year 620 B.C., and to have been by birth a slave. Who acts: honour, universal consent. 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 4

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He is, by an almost universal consent, allowed to have been born about the year 620 B.C., and to have been by birth a slave.

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**Who acts:** honour, universal consent · **What happens:** be, allow, bear · **To what, where:** universal consent

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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 (honour, universal consent), 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:pg21:2:4
# text = He is, by an almost universal consent, allowed to have been born about the year 620 B.C., and to have been by birth a slave.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	universal	universal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	620	620	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	appos	_	_
19	B.C	B.C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | honour |  |  |  |  | by a universal consent and birth and a slave | tree rules |
| 2 | **allow** | participle |  | a universal consent and birth and a slave *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **bear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | a universal consent and birth and a slave *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive · perfect | honour *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by birth and a slave | tree rules |

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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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