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title: Think what a grief it would be to us all if you were to come to any… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Think what a grief it would be to us all if you were to come to any harm.” Who acts: you, grief. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Hare and the Lions., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 15

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Think what a grief it would be to us all if you were to come to any harm.”

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**Who acts:** you, grief · **What happens:** think, be, come · **To what, where:** harm

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Hare and the Lions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, grief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:10:15
# text = Think what a grief it would be to us all if you were to come to any harm.”
1	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	1	obj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | what  a grief *obj* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | would | grief |  |  |  |  | to us; all *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you |  |  | any harm |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to harm=Initial\_Location |

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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:** «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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