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title: _Better to yield when it is folly to resist, than to resist stubborn… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Better to yield when it is folly to resist, than to resist stubbornly and be destroyed. Who acts: wind. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Oak and the Reeds, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Oak and the Reeds, sentence 14

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\_Better to yield when it is folly to resist, than to resist stubbornly and be destroyed.

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**Who acts:** wind · **What happens:** yield, be, resist, destroy · **To what, where:** folly

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Oak and the Reeds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind), 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:pg19994:30:14
# text = _Better to yield when it is folly to resist, than to resist stubbornly and be destroyed.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	yield	yield	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	resist	resist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	resist	resist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	stubbornly	stubbornly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	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 | **yield** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | wind | folly |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **resist** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **resist** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | stubbornly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **destroy** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» |

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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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