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title: _Do not stop to argue with temptation. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Do not stop to argue with temptation. Who acts: _. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and His Master's Dinner, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Dog and His Master's Dinner, sentence 12

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\_Do not stop to argue with temptation.

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**Who acts:** \_ · **What happens:** not stop, argue

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and His Master's Dinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_), 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:pg19994:59:12
# text = _Do not stop to argue with temptation.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	Do	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	argue	argue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	temptation	temptation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	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 | **not** **stop** | infinitive | \_ |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | to-infinitive | \_ *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with temptation | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with temptation=Co-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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