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title: Brother Hare,” replied the Sheep, “mine is a very sad story. — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Brother Hare,” replied the Sheep, “mine is a very sad story. Who acts: Brother, mine. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 19

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Brother Hare,” replied the Sheep, “mine is a very sad story.

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**Who acts:** Brother, mine · **What happens:** reply, be · **To what, where:** Sheep, sad story · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brother, mine), 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:pg75000:11:19
# text = Brother Hare,” replied the Sheep, “mine is a very sad story.
1	Brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
5	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Brother | the Sheep |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | mine | a sad story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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