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title: These feet which would have saved me I despised, and I gloried in th… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: These feet which would have saved me I despised, and I gloried in these antlers which have proved my destruction.” Who acts: feet, I, my. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 100

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These feet which would have saved me I despised, and I gloried in these antlers which have proved my destruction.”

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**Who acts:** feet, I, my · **What happens:** save, despise, glory, prove, destroy · **To what, where:** feet, antlers

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet, I, my), 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:pg21:14:100
# text = These feet which would have saved me I despised, and I gloried in these antlers which have proved my destruction.”
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	despised	despise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gloried	glory	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	antlers	antler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	proved	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | would · perfect · passive |  | this feet |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary i=Theme |
| 2 | **despise** | past | this feet |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **glory** | past | I |  |  | this antlers |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **prove** | present · perfect · passive |  | this antlers |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme destruction=Attribute |
| 5 | **destroy** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=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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