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title: But if you are divided among yourselves, you will be no stronger tha… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But if you are divided among yourselves, you will be no stronger than a single stick in that bundle." Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bundle of Sticks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Bundle of Sticks, sentence 9

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But if you are divided among yourselves, you will be no stronger than a single stick in that bundle."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** divide, not be · **To what, where:** you

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bundle of Sticks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg19994:15:9
# text = But if you are divided among yourselves, you will be no stronger than a single stick in that bundle."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	no	no	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  | among yourselves | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | future | you |  |  |  |  | than a single stick in that bundle; strong *property* | tree rules |

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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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