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title: The Vine addressed him and said: “Why do you thus injure me without… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Vine addressed him and said: “Why do you thus injure me without a cause, and crop my leaves? Who acts: Vine, you. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 50

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The Vine addressed him and said: “Why do you thus injure me without a cause, and crop my leaves?

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**Who acts:** Vine, you · **What happens:** address, say, injure, crop · **To what, where:** mistress, Vine, leaves · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vine, you), 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:pg21:6:50
# text = The Vine addressed him and said: “Why do you thus injure me without a cause, and crop my leaves?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Vine	Vine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	injure	injure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	without	without	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	crop	crop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **address** | past | the Vine |  | mistress |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the Vine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **injure** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | the Vine *= vine* |  |  |  | without a cause; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **crop** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Vine *not said here* | my leaves |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |

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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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