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title: _You are judged by the company you keep. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _You are judged by the company you keep. Who acts: company, you. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Stork, sentence 8

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\_You are judged by the company you keep.

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**Who acts:** company, you · **What happens:** judge, keep · **To what, where:** You, company

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (company, 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:pg19994:23:8
# text = _You are judged by the company you keep.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	judged	judge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **judge** | present · passive | the company | You |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent subject=Value |
| 2 | **keep** | present | you | the company *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme |

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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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