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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 73

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THE WOLVES thus addressed the Sheepdogs: “Why should you, who are like us in so many things, not be entirely of one mind with us, and live with us as brothers should?

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**Who acts:** WOLVES · **What happens:** address, be, not be, live · **To what, where:** Sheepdogs, many things

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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 (WOLVES), 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:pg21:10:73
# text = THE WOLVES thus addressed the Sheepdogs: “Why should you, who are like us in so many things, not be entirely of one mind with us, and live with us as brothers should?
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	WOLVES	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Sheepdogs	sheepdog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
24	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
37	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **address** | past | the WOLVES | the Sheepdogs |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheepdog=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | many things |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of one mind; with us; entirely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** *in a quote* | infinitive | the WOLVES *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with us | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with we=Location |

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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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