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title: _Your enemies will seize any excuse to attack you. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Your enemies will seize any excuse to attack you. Who acts: enemies. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and His Ears, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Hare and His Ears, sentence 13

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\_Your enemies will seize any excuse to attack you.

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**Who acts:** enemies · **What happens:** seize, attack · **To what, where:** excuse, you

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and His Ears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enemies), 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:pg19994:144:13
# text = _Your enemies will seize any excuse to attack you.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	excuse	excuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | future | Your enemies | any excuse |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Theme |
| 2 | **attack** | to-infinitive | Your enemies *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |

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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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