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title: But, nevertheless, I am not going to let the Wolf get the best of me… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: But, nevertheless, I am not going to let the Wolf get the best of me like this, and kill my friends with impunity. Who acts: I, going. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., with its dependency tree and th
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 56

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But, nevertheless, I am not going to let the Wolf get the best of me like this, and kill my friends with impunity.

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**Who acts:** I, going · **What happens:** not go, let, get, kill · **To what, where:** Wolf, best, friends

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, going), 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:pg75000:12:56
# text = But, nevertheless, I am not going to let the Wolf get the best of me like this, and kill my friends with impunity.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	csubj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	impunity	impunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  | nevertheless *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the Wolf |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | present | going | the best of me like this |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus |
| 4 | **kill** | infinitive | going *not said here* | my friends |  |  |  | with impunity | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent friend=Patient with impunity=Instrument |

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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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