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title: _The strong are apt to settle questions to their own advantage. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _The strong are apt to settle questions to their own advantage. Who acts: strong. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat, sentence 12

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\_The strong are apt to settle questions to their own advantage.

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**Who acts:** strong · **What happens:** be, settle · **To what, where:** questions

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strong), 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:pg19994:66:12
# text = _The strong are apt to settle questions to their own advantage.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	apt	apt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | the strong |  |  |  |  | apt *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **settle** | to-infinitive | the strong *not said here* | questions |  |  |  | to questions's own advantage | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme question=Location |

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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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