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title: A Bat, fearing the uncertain issues of the fight, always fought on t… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A Bat, fearing the uncertain issues of the fight, always fought on the side which he felt was the strongest. Who acts: Bat, side. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 123

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A Bat, fearing the uncertain issues of the fight, always fought on the side which he felt was the strongest.

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**Who acts:** Bat, side · **What happens:** fear, fight, feel, be, issue · **To what, where:** uncertain issues, side, fight

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bat, side), 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:pg21:13:123
# text = A Bat, fearing the uncertain issues of the fight, always fought on the side which he felt was the strongest.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	issues	issue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
13	fought	fight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | gerund | a Bat *not said here* | the uncertain issues of the fight |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer issue=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fight** | participle |  | the uncertain issues of the fight *not said here* |  | the side |  | always *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **feel** | past | the side |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | a Bat |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **issue** |  |  | the fight |  |  |  |  | nom issue «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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