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title: Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do larg… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes. Who acts: Men, grievances. 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 60

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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

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**Who acts:** Men, grievances · **What happens:** bear, do · **To what, where:** little grievances, large misfortunes

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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 (Men, grievances), 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:pg21:10:60
# text = Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
1	Men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	bear	bear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	grievances	grievance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | present | Men | little grievances |  |  |  | with less courage; often *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grievance=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | present | grievances *= grievance* | large misfortunes |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent misfortune=Eventuality |

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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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