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title: “Nay,” replied the other, “keep to your first mode of speech, my fri… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: “Nay,” replied the other, “keep to your first mode of speech, my friend; what you thought right then, think right now. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 41

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“Nay,” replied the other, “keep to your first mode of speech, my friend; what you thought right then, think right now.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** reply, keep, think · **To what, where:** other · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg21:8:41
# text = “Nay,” replied the other, “keep to your first mode of speech, my friend; what you thought right then, think right now.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	mode	mode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
24	right	right	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
28	right	right	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | you *not said here* | the other |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent other=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to your first mode of speech and my friend | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  | then |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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