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title: Thus ungratefully, O Jupiter, do men receive their blessings!" — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus ungratefully, O Jupiter, do men receive their blessings!" Who acts: men. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Plane Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Plane Tree, sentence 7

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Thus ungratefully, O Jupiter, do men receive their blessings!"

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** receive, bless · **To what, where:** blessings

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Plane Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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:pg19994:22:7
# text = Thus ungratefully, O Jupiter, do men receive their blessings!"
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	ungratefully	ungratefully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	5	case	_	_
5	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	blessings	blessing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | present · do-support | men | men's blessings |  |  |  | ungratefully *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme |
| 2 | **bless** |  | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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