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title: _They who will not listen to reason but stubbornly go their own way… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _They who will not listen to reason but stubbornly go their own way against the friendly advice of those who are wiser than they, are on the road to misfortune. Who acts: heels. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and His Driver, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Aesop for Children, The Ass and His Driver, sentence 6

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\_They who will not listen to reason but stubbornly go their own way against the friendly advice of those who are wiser than they, are on the road to misfortune.

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**Who acts:** heels · **What happens:** not listen, go, be · **To what, where:** own way, friendly advice

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and His Driver. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heels), 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:pg19994:17:6
# text = _They who will not listen to reason but stubbornly go their own way against the friendly advice of those who are wiser than they, are on the road to misfortune.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	stubbornly	stubbornly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	against	against	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	nmod	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	wiser	wise	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **listen** | future | heels *= heel* |  |  |  |  | to reason | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to reason=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | heels *= heel* *not said here* | heels's own way |  | the friendly advice of those |  | stubbornly *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against advice=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | heels *= heel* |  |  |  |  | than the road; to misfortune | 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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