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title: The Bald Man replied, “I can easily make peace with myself, because… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bald Man replied, “I can easily make peace with myself, because I know there was no intention to hurt. Who acts: Bald Man, intention. 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 71

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The Bald Man replied, “I can easily make peace with myself, because I know there was no intention to hurt.

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**Who acts:** Bald Man, intention · **What happens:** reply, make, know, be, hurt · **To what, where:** peace · **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 (Bald Man, intention), 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:pg21:16:71
# text = The Bald Man replied, “I can easily make peace with myself, because I know there was no intention to hurt.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Bald	bald	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Bald Man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | can | the Bald Man *= man* | peace |  |  |  | with the Bald Man *= man*; easily *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Product |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | present | the Bald Man *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* | past | no intention |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hurt** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | no intention *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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