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title: “These,” he made answer, “are worthy companions of yourself, fit at… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: “These,” he made answer, “are worthy companions of yourself, fit at least to be ambassadors and leaders of armies.” Who acts: sort. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 13

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“These,” he made answer, “are worthy companions of yourself, fit at least to be ambassadors and leaders of armies.”

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**Who acts:** sort · **What happens:** make, be, fit · **To what, where:** These, worthy companions, least, ambassadors

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sort), 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:pg21:12:13
# text = “These,” he made answer, “are worthy companions of yourself, fit at least to be ambassadors and leaders of armies.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	ambassadors	ambassador	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | sort | These |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | worthy companions |  |  |  | of yourself | tree rules |
| 3 | **fit** *in a quote* | present | sort *not said here* |  |  | least |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent at least=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | ambassadors and leaders of armies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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