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title: _It is easy and also contemptible to kick a man that is down. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _It is easy and also contemptible to kick a man that is down. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dogs and the Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Dogs and the Fox, sentence 5

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\_It is easy and also contemptible to kick a man that is down.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, kick · **To what, where:** man

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dogs and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg19994:64:5
# text = _It is easy and also contemptible to kick a man that is down.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	contemptible	contemptible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	kick	kick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **kick** | to-infinitive |  | a man |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | a man |  |  |  |  | down *property* | tree rules |

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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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