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title: The safeguards of virtue are hateful to those with evil intentions. — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The safeguards of virtue are hateful to those with evil intentions. Who acts: safeguards. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 93

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The safeguards of virtue are hateful to those with evil intentions.

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**Who acts:** safeguards · **What happens:** be, safeguard · **To what, where:** virtue

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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 (safeguards), 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:pg21:9:93
# text = The safeguards of virtue are hateful to those with evil intentions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	safeguards	safeguard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	hateful	hateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	intentions	intention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the safeguards of virtue |  |  |  |  | to those; hateful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **safeguard** |  |  | virtue |  |  |  |  | nom safeguard «act transitive»: of=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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