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title: We live in freedom, but you bow down to and slave for men, who in re… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: We live in freedom, but you bow down to and slave for men, who in return for your services flog you with whips and put collars on your necks. Who acts: We, you, men, your. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 75

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We live in freedom, but you bow down to and slave for men, who in return for your services flog you with whips and put collars on your necks.

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**Who acts:** We, you, men, your · **What happens:** live, bow down, slave, flog, put, service · **To what, where:** freedom, you, return

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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 (We, you, men, 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:pg21:10:75
# text = We live in freedom, but you bow down to and slave for men, who in return for your services flog you with whips and put collars on your necks.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	bow	bow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	slave	slave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	flog	flog	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	whips	whip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	collars	collar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | We |  |  | freedom |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in freedom=Location |
| 2 | **bow down** | present | you |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **slave** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for men | tree rules |
| 4 | **flog** | present | men | you |  | return for your services |  | with whips and put collars on your necks | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient in return=Location with whip=Instrument |
| 5 | **put** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **service** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «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:** «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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