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title: If you would only dismiss them from your heels, there might soon be… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: If you would only dismiss them from your heels, there might soon be treaties of peace and reconciliation between us.” Who acts: you, treaties. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 101

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If you would only dismiss them from your heels, there might soon be treaties of peace and reconciliation between us.”

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**Who acts:** you, treaties · **What happens:** dismiss, be · **To what, where:** sheep, heels

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, treaties), 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:pg21:5:101
# text = If you would only dismiss them from your heels, there might soon be treaties of peace and reconciliation between us.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dismiss	dismiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
12	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	treaties	treaty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	reconciliation	reconciliation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dismiss** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | you | sheep |  | your heels |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from heel=Source |
| 2 | **be** | might | treaties of peace and reconciliation between us |  |  | there |  | soon *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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