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title: _It is wiser to bear a single injury in silence than to provoke a th… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _It is wiser to bear a single injury in silence than to provoke a thousand by flying into a rage. Who acts: It. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bear and the Bees, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Bear and the Bees, sentence 8

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\_It is wiser to bear a single injury in silence than to provoke a thousand by flying into a rage.

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**Who acts:** It · **What happens:** be, bear, provoke, fly · **To what, where:** single injury, silence, thousand, rage

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bear and the Bees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), 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:pg19994:67:8
# text = _It is wiser to bear a single injury in silence than to provoke a thousand by flying into a rage.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	wiser	wise	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	provoke	provoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obj	_	_
17	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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 | It |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | to-infinitive |  | a single injury |  | silence |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injury=Patient |
| 3 | **provoke** | to-infinitive |  | a thousand |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thousand=Experiencer |
| 4 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | into a rage *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into rage=Result |

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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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