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title: You, in all your pride and strength, have so far resisted their blows. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: You, in all your pride and strength, have so far resisted their blows. Who acts: You, your, pride. 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 9

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You, in all your pride and strength, have so far resisted their blows.

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**Who acts:** You, your, pride · **What happens:** have, resist, pride, blow · **To what, where:** pride, blows

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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 (You, your, pride), 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:pg19994:30:9
# text = You, in all your pride and strength, have so far resisted their blows.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	resisted	resist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | You |  |  | your pride and strength |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **resist** | past | You *not said here* | pride's blows |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pride** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **blow** |  | pride |  |  |  |  |  | nom blow «act intransitive»: 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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