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title: "Do not think," he said, "that I submit to your cowardly treatment b… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "Do not think," he said, "that I submit to your cowardly treatment because I am afraid of you. Who acts: Bull, your. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bull and the Goat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Bull and the Goat, sentence 4

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"Do not think," he said, "that I submit to your cowardly treatment because I am afraid of you.

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**Who acts:** Bull, your · **What happens:** not think, say, submit, be, treat · **To what, where:** that, cowardly treatment · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bull and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bull, your), 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:pg19994:98:4
# text = "Do not think," he said, "that I submit to your cowardly treatment because I am afraid of you.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	submit	submit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	cowardly	cowardly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Bull |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **submit** *in a quote* | present | Bull | that | your cowardly treatment |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Theme to treatment=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Bull |  |  |  |  | of you; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **treat** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom treatment «act transitive»: poss=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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