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title: “That is the very reason for which you should be put to death,” they… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: “That is the very reason for which you should be put to death,” they said; “for, while you do not fight yourself, your trumpet stirs all the others to battle.” Who acts: That, arms, you, trumpet. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, with its dependency tree
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 13

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“That is the very reason for which you should be put to death,” they said; “for, while you do not fight yourself, your trumpet stirs all the others to battle.”

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**Who acts:** That, arms, you, trumpet · **What happens:** be, put, say, not fight, stir, battle · **To what, where:** reason, you, yourself, others · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (That, arms, you, trumpet), 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:pg21:14:13
# text = “That is the very reason for which you should be put to death,” they said; “for, while you do not fight yourself, your trumpet stirs all the others to battle.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
28	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	stirs	stir	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	35	det:predet	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	battle	battle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | the reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** *in a quote* | should · passive |  | you |  |  |  | for the reason; to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | arms *= arm* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **fight** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **stir** *in a quote* | present | your trumpet | all others |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus other=Experiencer |
| 6 | **battle** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | your trumpet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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