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title: _It is unwise to treat old friends badly for the sake of new ones. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _It is unwise to treat old friends badly for the sake of new ones. Who acts: thanks. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goatherd and the Wild Goats, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Goatherd and the Wild Goats, sentence 8

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\_It is unwise to treat old friends badly for the sake of new ones.

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**Who acts:** thanks · **What happens:** be, treat · **To what, where:** old friends

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goatherd and the Wild Goats. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thanks), 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:pg19994:87:8
# text = _It is unwise to treat old friends badly for the sake of new ones.
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	unwise	unwise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	treat	treat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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 | thanks |  |  |  |  | unwise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **treat** | to-infinitive | thanks *not said here* |  | old friends |  |  | for the sake of new ones; badly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient |

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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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