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title: Uncle Wolf,” replied the trembling Sheep, “we are doing no harm; I a… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Uncle Wolf,” replied the trembling Sheep, “we are doing no harm; I am just taking my Lamb to graze on the rich grass of the great northern plateau.” Who acts: Uncle Wolf, we, I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Ha
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 5

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Uncle Wolf,” replied the trembling Sheep, “we are doing no harm; I am just taking my Lamb to graze on the rich grass of the great northern plateau.”

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**Who acts:** Uncle Wolf, we, I · **What happens:** reply, do, take, graze · **To what, where:** trembling Sheep, harm, Lamb

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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 (Uncle Wolf, we, I), 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:pg75000:11:5
# text = Uncle Wolf,” replied the trembling Sheep, “we are doing no harm; I am just taking my Lamb to graze on the rich grass of the great northern plateau.”
1	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	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	8	det	_	_
7	trembling	trembling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	just	just	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	Lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	graze	graze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	plateau	plateau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	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 | Uncle Wolf | the trembling Sheep |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sheep=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | present · progressive | we | no harm |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality |
| 3 | **take** | present · progressive | I |  | my Lamb |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument lamb=Destination |
| 4 | **graze** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the rich grass of the great northern plateau | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on grass=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:** «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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