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title: He inveighed against the injustice of Providence, which would for th… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: He inveighed against the injustice of Providence, which would for the sake of one criminal perchance sailing in the ship allow so many innocent persons to perish. Who acts: Philosopher, one criminal perchance. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, with its de
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 122

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He inveighed against the injustice of Providence, which would for the sake of one criminal perchance sailing in the ship allow so many innocent persons to perish.

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**Who acts:** Philosopher, one criminal perchance · **What happens:** inveigh, sail, allow, perish · **To what, where:** ship, many innocent persons

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Philosopher, one criminal perchance), 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:pg21:9:122
# text = He inveighed against the injustice of Providence, which would for the sake of one criminal perchance sailing in the ship allow so many innocent persons to perish.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	inveighed	inveigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	against	against	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	injustice	injustice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Providence	Providence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	criminal	criminal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	perchance	perchance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	allow	allow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inveigh** | past | Philosopher |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sail** | gerund | one criminal perchance *not said here* |  |  | the ship |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **allow** | present |  |  | many innocent persons |  |  | against the injustice of Providence | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **perish** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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