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title: “Allow them,” said Jupiter, “to enjoy an empty honour and to assume… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: “Allow them,” said Jupiter, “to enjoy an empty honour and to assume the badge of your nobler sex, so long as they are not your equals in strength or courage.” Who acts: Jupiter, Beards, your. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, with its dependency tree and
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 66

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“Allow them,” said Jupiter, “to enjoy an empty honour and to assume the badge of your nobler sex, so long as they are not your equals in strength or courage.”

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**Who acts:** Jupiter, Beards, your · **What happens:** allow, say, enjoy, assume, not be, badge · **To what, where:** Beards, empty honour, badge, strength, nobler sex · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Jupiter, Beards, your), 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:pg21:16:66
# text = “Allow them,” said Jupiter, “to enjoy an empty honour and to assume the badge of your nobler sex, so long as they are not your equals in strength or courage.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	assume	assume	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	badge	badge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	nobler	noble	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
23	sex	sex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	equals	equal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | Beards *= beard* |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jupiter |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **enjoy** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | a empty honour |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer honour=Stimulus |
| 4 | **assume** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the badge of your nobler sex |  |  |  | long *property* | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent badge=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Beards *= beard* |  |  | strength or courage |  | as your equals | tree rules |
| 6 | **badge** *in a quote* |  |  | your nobler sex |  |  |  |  | nom badge «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **sex** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom sex «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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