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title: He said, “O Wife, if you were disliked by those who go out early in… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: He said, “O Wife, if you were disliked by those who go out early in the morning with their flocks and return late in the evening, what must have been felt towards you by those with whom you passed the whole day!” Who acts: man, those, you. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 119

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He said, “O Wife, if you were disliked by those who go out early in the morning with their flocks and return late in the evening, what must have been felt towards you by those with whom you passed the whole day!”

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**Who acts:** man, those, you · **What happens:** say, dislike, go out, return, feel, pass · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, those, you), 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:pg21:11:119
# text = He said, “O Wife, if you were disliked by those who go out early in the morning with their flocks and return late in the evening, what must have been felt towards you by those with whom you passed the whole day!”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	6	case	_	_
6	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	disliked	dislike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
26	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	35	obj	_	_
32	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
36	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	35	obl	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nmod	_	_
42	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **dislike** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · passive | those | you |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go out** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  | morning | with shepherds's flocks; early, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with flock=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **return** *in a quote* | present | those *not said here* |  |  |  | evening | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **feel** *in a quote* | must · perfect · passive | those |  |  |  |  | towards you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 6 | **pass** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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