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title: The moral or lesson should be so plain, and so intimately interwoven… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The moral or lesson should be so plain, and so intimately interwoven with, and so necessarily dependent on, the narration, that every reader should be compelled to give to it the same undeniable interpretation. Who acts: moral lesson. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally 
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 29

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The moral or lesson should be so plain, and so intimately interwoven with, and so necessarily dependent on, the narration, that every reader should be compelled to give to it the same undeniable interpretation.

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**Who acts:** moral lesson · **What happens:** be, interweave, compel, give · **To what, where:** reader, same undeniable interpretation, narration

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moral lesson), 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:pg21:1:29
# text = The moral or lesson should be so plain, and so intimately interwoven with, and so necessarily dependent on, the narration, that every reader should be compelled to give to it the same undeniable interpretation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	intimately	intimately	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	interwoven	interweave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	dependent	dependent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	narration	narration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	compelled	compel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	undeniable	undeniable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	interpretation	interpretation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | should | the moral lesson |  |  |  |  | plain *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **interweave** | participle | the moral lesson *not said here* |  |  |  |  | intimately *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **be** |  | the moral lesson *not said here* |  |  |  |  | necessarily *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **compel** | should · passive |  | that reader |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 5 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | the same undeniable interpretation | narration |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent interpretation=Theme to it=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:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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