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title: The Bundle of Sticks — The Aesop for Children · full text with trees
description: The Bundle of Sticks, «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: A certain Father had a family of Sons, who were forever quarreling among themselves.
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# The Bundle of Sticks

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The Bundle of Sticks of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop: the whole text, 11 sentences and 194 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 1 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/15/1/) — A certain Father had a family of Sons, who were forever quarreling among themselves.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/15/2/) — No words he could say did the least good, so he cast about in his mind for some very striking example that should make them see that discord would lead them to misfortune. — checked by a teacher
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/15/3/) — One day when the quarreling had been much more violent than usual and each of the Sons was moping in a surly manner, he asked one of them to bring him a bundle of sticks.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/15/4/) — Then handing the bundle to each of his Sons in turn he told them to try to break it.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/15/5/) — But although each one tried his best, none was able to do so.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/15/6/) — The Father then untied the bundle and gave the sticks to his Sons to break one by one.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/15/7/) — This they did very easily.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/15/8/) — "My Sons," said the Father, "do you not see how certain it is that if you agree with each other and help each other, it will be impossible for your enemies to injure you?
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/15/9/) — But if you are divided among yourselves, you will be no stronger than a single stick in that bundle."
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/15/10/) — \_In unity is strength.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/15/11/) — \_

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