--- title: In his desire alike to instruct and to be instructed, he travelled t… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: In his desire alike to instruct and to be instructed, he travelled through many countries, and among others came to Sardis, the capital of the famous king of Lydia, the great patron, in that day, of learning and of learned men. Who acts: Æsop. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, L --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/2/7/) [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/) / 7 # Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 7 In his desire alike to instruct and to be instructed, he travelled through many countries, and among others came to Sardis, the capital of the famous king of Lydia, the great patron, in that day, of learning and of learned men. **Who acts:** Æsop · **What happens:** instruct, travel, come, learn, desire · **To what, where:** desire, many countries, Sardis 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 (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:pg21:2:7 # text = In his desire alike to instruct and to be instructed, he travelled through many countries, and among others came to Sardis, the capital of the famous king of Lydia, the great patron, in that day, of learning and of learned men. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 alike alike ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 instruct instruct VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 instructed instruct VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 14 through through ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 among among ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 21 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Sardis Sardis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Lydia Lydia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 patron patron NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 det _ _ 40 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 learning learning NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 amod _ _ 47 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **instruct** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | | | | Æsop's desire | | alike *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **instruct** *speech: other* | to-infinitive · passive | | | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic» | | 3 | **travel** | past | Æsop *= æsop* | | | many countries | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through country=Trajectory | | 4 | **come** | past | Æsop *= æsop* *not said here* | | | Sardis | day | among others; of learning and learned men | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to sardis=Initial\_Location of learning=Destination | | 5 | **learn** | participle | | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **desire** | | Æsop *= æsop* | | | | | | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/2/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/2/8/) - ↑ back to [Life of Aesop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/2/)