Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 6

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.

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

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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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 permission	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 privileges	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 privileges	det
4	privileges	privilege	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 freedman	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 freedman	det
7	freedman	freedman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 privileges	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 republics	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 republics	det
10	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 republics	amod
11	republics	republic	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 freedman	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Greece	case
13	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 republics	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 privileges	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 permission	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 permission	det
17	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	to	to	PART	_	19 take	mark
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 permission	acl
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 interest	det
21	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 interest	amod
22	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 affairs	case
24	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 affairs	amod
25	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 interest	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 Æsop	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Æsop	cc
28	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 raised	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 philosophers	punct
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 philosophers	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 philosophers	det
32	philosophers	philosopher	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 Æsop	appos
33	Phædo	Phædo	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 philosophers	appos
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Menippus	punct
35	Menippus	Menippus	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Phædo	flat
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Epictetus	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 Epictetus	cc
38	Epictetus	Epictetus	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Phædo	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 times	punct
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 times	case
41	later	late	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	42 times	amod
42	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 Phædo	obl:unmarked
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 raised	punct
44	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 permission	acl:relcl
45	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	44 raised	obj
46	from	from	ADP	_	48 indignity	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 indignity	det
48	indignity	indignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 raised	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	52 condition	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 condition	det
51	servile	servile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 condition	amod
52	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 indignity	nmod
53	to	to	ADP	_	55 position	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 position	det
55	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 condition	nmod
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 renown	case
57	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 renown	amod
58	renown	renown	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 position	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 permission	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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.

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