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title: He then said to himself, “I shall no longer distress myself at being… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: He then said to himself, “I shall no longer distress myself at being struck at by these Gamecocks, when I see that they cannot even refrain from quarreling with each other.” Who acts: pilot, Gamecocks. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, with its dependenc
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 81

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He then said to himself, “I shall no longer distress myself at being struck at by these Gamecocks, when I see that they cannot even refrain from quarreling with each other.”

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**Who acts:** pilot, Gamecocks · **What happens:** say, distress, strike, see, not refrain, quarrel · **To what, where:** pilot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (pilot, Gamecocks), 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:pg21:13:81
# text = He then said to himself, “I shall no longer distress myself at being struck at by these Gamecocks, when I see that they cannot even refrain from quarreling with each other.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	no	no	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	distress	distress	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	Gamecocks	gamecock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	refrain	refrain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
31	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	quarreling	quarrel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	32	obl	_	_
35	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | pilot |  | pilot |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 2 | **distress** *in a quote* | shall | pilot | pilot |  |  |  | long *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer |
| 3 | **strike** *in a quote* | gerund · passive | this Gamecocks |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | present | pilot |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **refrain** *in a quote* | can | Gamecocks *= gamecock* |  |  |  |  |  | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **quarrel** *in a quote* | gerund | Gamecocks *= gamecock* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with each | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with each=Co-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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