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title: _Expect no reward for serving the wicked. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Expect no reward for serving the wicked. Who acts: you, reward. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Crane, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Crane, sentence 14

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\_Expect no reward for serving the wicked.

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**Who acts:** you, reward · **What happens:** expect, serve · **To what, where:** reward, wicked

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Crane. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, reward), 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:pg19994:16:14
# text = _Expect no reward for serving the wicked.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Expect	expect	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	serving	serve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | imperative | you *not said here* | no reward |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme |
| 2 | **serve** | gerund | no reward *not said here* | the wicked |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wicked=Attribute |

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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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