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title: “That is the very reason why we must the more kill you,” they replie… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: “That is the very reason why we must the more kill you,” they replied; “for when you wake your neighbors, you entirely put an end to our business.” Who acts: That, we, Thieves, you. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 92

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“That is the very reason why we must the more kill you,” they replied; “for when you wake your neighbors, you entirely put an end to our business.”

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**Who acts:** That, we, Thieves, you · **What happens:** be, kill, reply, wake, put · **To what, where:** reason, you, more kill, neighbors, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (That, we, Thieves, 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:pg21:9:92
# text = “That is the very reason why we must the more kill you,” they replied; “for when you wake your neighbors, you entirely put an end to our business.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	kill	kill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	wake	wake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | the reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** *in a quote* | must | we | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Thieves *= thief* | the more kill *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kill=Topic |
| 4 | **wake** *in a quote* | present | you | your neighbors |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neighbor=Patient |
| 5 | **put** *in a quote* | present | you | a end |  |  |  | to our business; entirely *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal |

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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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