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title: The Lion's Share — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees
description: The Lion's Share, «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: A long time ago, the Lion, the Fox, the Jackal, and the Wolf agreed to go hunting together, sharing with each other whatever they found.
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# The Lion's Share

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The Lion's Share of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 12 sentences and 187 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/141/1/) — A long time ago, the Lion, the Fox, the Jackal, and the Wolf agreed to go hunting together, sharing with each other whatever they found.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/141/2/) — One day the Wolf ran down a Stag and immediately called his comrades to divide the spoil.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/141/3/) — Without being asked, the Lion placed himself at the head of the feast to do the carving, and, with a great show of fairness, began to count the guests.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/141/4/) — "One," he said, counting on his claws, "that is myself the Lion.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/141/5/) — Two, that's the Wolf, three, is the Jackal, and the Fox makes four."
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/141/6/) — He then very carefully divided the Stag into four equal parts.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/141/7/) — "I am King Lion," he said, when he had finished, "so of course I get the first part.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/141/8/) — This next part falls to me because I am the strongest; and \_this\_ is mine because I am the bravest."
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/141/9/) — He now began to glare at the others very savagely. "
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/141/10/) — If any of you have any claim to the part that is left," he growled, stretching his claws meaningly, "now is the time to speak up."
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/141/11/) — \_Might makes right.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/141/12/) — \_

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