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title: One of the privileges of a freedman in the ancient republics of Gree… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the privileges of a freedman in the ancient republics of Greece, was the permission to take an active interest in public affairs; and Æsop, like the philosophers Phædo, Menippus, and Epictetus, in later times, raised himself from the indignity of a servile condition to a position of high reno
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 6

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One of the privileges of a freedman in the ancient republics of Greece, was the permission to take an active interest in public affairs; and Æsop, like the philosophers Phædo, Menippus, and Epictetus, in later times, raised himself from the indignity of a servile condition to a position of high renown.

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**Who acts:** One, Æsop · **What happens:** be, take, raise · **To what, where:** permission, active interest, public affairs, Æsop, indignity

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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 (One, Æsop), 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:pg21:2:6
# text = One of the privileges of a freedman in the ancient republics of Greece, was the permission to take an active interest in public affairs; and Æsop, like the philosophers Phædo, Menippus, and Epictetus, in later times, raised himself from the indignity of a servile condition to a position of high renown.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	privileges	privilege	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	freedman	freedman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	republics	republic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	philosophers	philosopher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	appos	_	_
33	Phædo	Phædo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Menippus	Menippus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	Epictetus	Epictetus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	42	amod	_	_
42	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
45	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	44	obj	_	_
46	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	indignity	indignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	servile	servile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	renown	renown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | One of the privileges of a freedman in the ancient republics of Greece | the permission |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | a active interest |  | public affairs |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent interest=Value in affair=Location |
| 3 | **raise** | past | Æsop | Æsop *= æsop* |  | the indignity of a servile condition to a position of high renown |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from indignity=Destination |

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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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