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title: If no cruel hand pluck me from my stem, yet I must perish by an earl… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: If no cruel hand pluck me from my stem, yet I must perish by an early doom. Who acts: cruel hand, I, my. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 75

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If no cruel hand pluck me from my stem, yet I must perish by an early doom.

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**Who acts:** cruel hand, I, my · **What happens:** pluck, perish, stem · **To what, where:** me, stem

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cruel hand, 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:pg21:15:75
# text = If no cruel hand pluck me from my stem, yet I must perish by an early doom.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
3	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	doom	doom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pluck** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | no cruel hand | me |  | my stem |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from stem=Source |
| 2 | **perish** | must | I |  |  |  |  | by a early doom | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **stem** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom stem «communication 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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