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title: _Men often condemn others for what they see no wrong in doing themse… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Men often condemn others for what they see no wrong in doing themselves. Who acts: Men. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Shepherd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Shepherd, sentence 4

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\_Men often condemn others for what they see no wrong in doing themselves.

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**Who acts:** Men · **What happens:** condemn, see, do · **To what, where:** others, Men

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Shepherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Men), 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:pg19994:104:4
# text = _Men often condemn others for what they see no wrong in doing themselves.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	condemn	condemn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	no	no	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **condemn** | present | Men | others |  |  |  | often *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent other=Theme for what=Attribute |
| 2 | **see** | present | Men *= man* |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **do** | gerund | Men *= man* *not said here* | Men *= man* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Eventuality |

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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:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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