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title: The weak often revenge themselves on those who use them ill, even th… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The weak often revenge themselves on those who use them ill, even though they be more powerful. Who acts: Eagle. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 63

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The weak often revenge themselves on those who use them ill, even though they be more powerful.

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**Who acts:** Eagle · **What happens:** use, be · **To what, where:** Eagle

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle), 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:pg21:16:63
# text = The weak often revenge themselves on those who use them ill, even though they be more powerful.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nmod	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
14	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present |  | Eagle |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | Eagle |  |  |  |  | powerful *property* | tree rules |

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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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