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title: _Deeds count, not boasting words. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Deeds count, not boasting words. Who acts: Deeds. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Leap At Rhodes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Leap At Rhodes, sentence 8

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\_Deeds count, not boasting words.

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**Who acts:** Deeds · **What happens:** count, boast · **To what, where:** boasting words

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Leap At Rhodes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Deeds), 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:pg19994:40:8
# text = _Deeds count, not boasting words.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	boasting	boast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present | Deeds | boasting words |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **boast** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: 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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