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title: _We are often of greater importance in our own eyes than in the eyes… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _We are often of greater importance in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbor. Who acts: We. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Gnat and the Bull, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Gnat and the Bull, sentence 7

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\_We are often of greater importance in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbor.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** own eyes

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Gnat and the Bull. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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:pg19994:21:7
# text = _We are often of greater importance in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbor.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | We |  |  | our own eyes than the eyes of our neighbor |  | of greater importance; often *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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