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title: In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you esca… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains. Who acts: you, your. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 26

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In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** serve, expect, be, escape, pain · **To what, where:** wicked, reward, injury

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:pg21:3:26
# text = In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	serving	serve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	expect	expect	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	thankful	thankful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	escape	escape	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | gerund | you *not said here* | the wicked |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wicked=Attribute |
| 2 | **expect** | imperative | you *not said here* | no reward |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | thankful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **escape** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | injury |  |  |  | for your pains | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme injury=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **pain** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state 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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