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title: The dishonest, if they act honestly, get no credit. — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The dishonest, if they act honestly, get no credit. Who acts: dishonest. 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 33

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The dishonest, if they act honestly, get no credit.

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**Who acts:** dishonest · **What happens:** act, get · **To what, where:** credit

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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 (dishonest), 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:pg21:13:33
# text = The dishonest, if they act honestly, get no credit.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	act	act	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **act** | present | the dishonest |  |  |  |  | honestly *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive | the dishonest *not said here* | no credit |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer credit=Stimulus |

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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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