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title: When a man decides to do his own work and not depend on any one else… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: When a man decides to do his own work and not depend on any one else, then you may be sure there will be no more delay." Who acts: man, you. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lark and Her Young Ones, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones, sentence 16

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When a man decides to do his own work and not depend on any one else, then you may be sure there will be no more delay."

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**Who acts:** man, you · **What happens:** decide, do, not depend, be, work · **To what, where:** own work, sure more delay

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lark and Her Young Ones. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, you), 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:pg19994:130:16
# text = When a man decides to do his own work and not depend on any one else, then you may be sure there will be no more delay."
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	decides	decide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	depend	depend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	else	else	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
26	no	no	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | present | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a man *not said here* | man's own work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **depend** | infinitive | a man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on any one | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on one=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | may | you |  |  |  | then | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | imperative | you *not said here* | sure more delay |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **work** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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