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title: Misfortunes springing from ourselves are the hardest to bear. — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Misfortunes springing from ourselves are the hardest to bear. Who acts: Misfortunes. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 43

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Misfortunes springing from ourselves are the hardest to bear.

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**Who acts:** Misfortunes · **What happens:** spring, be, bear

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Misfortunes), 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:pg21:10:43
# text = Misfortunes springing from ourselves are the hardest to bear.
1	Misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	springing	spring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obl	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | gerund | Misfortunes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from ourselves | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ourselves=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | present | Misfortunes |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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