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description: I repeat that I am altogether more powerful than you; and if you doubt it, let us fight and see who will conquer.” Who acts: I, you, us. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 67

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I repeat that I am altogether more powerful than you; and if you doubt it, let us fight and see who will conquer.”

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**Who acts:** I, you, us · **What happens:** repeat, be, doubt, let, fight, see · **To what, where:** Vine, us · **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 (I, you, us), 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:pg21:11:67
# text = I repeat that I am altogether more powerful than you; and if you doubt it, let us fight and see who will conquer.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	repeat	repeat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	doubt	doubt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	conquer	conquer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | than you; altogether, powerful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **doubt** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | Vine |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | infinitive | I *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fight** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **see** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **conquer** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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