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title: The honor is not meant for you but for the image you are carrying." — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The honor is not meant for you but for the image you are carrying." Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass Carrying the Image, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Ass Carrying the Image, sentence 7

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The honor is not meant for you but for the image you are carrying."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not mean, carry · **To what, where:** honor

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass Carrying the Image. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg19994:35:7
# text = The honor is not meant for you but for the image you are carrying."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mean** | present · passive |  | the honor |  |  |  | for you | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for you=Attribute |
| 2 | **carry** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  | for the image | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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