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title: I myself shall take some cheese; Brother Fox no doubt would like som… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: I myself shall take some cheese; Brother Fox no doubt would like some cold fowl; and I should advise you, Brother Wolf, to carry off that jar of wine.” Who acts: I, doubt. 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 W
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 70

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I myself shall take some cheese; Brother Fox no doubt would like some cold fowl; and I should advise you, Brother Wolf, to carry off that jar of wine.”

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**Who acts:** I, doubt · **What happens:** take, like, advise, carry off · **To what, where:** cheese, cold fowl, you, jar

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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, doubt), 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:pg75000:12:70
# text = I myself shall take some cheese; Brother Fox no doubt would like some cold fowl; and I should advise you, Brother Wolf, to carry off that jar of wine.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	advise	advise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
29	off	off	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | shall | I | some cheese |  |  |  | Brother *obl*; myself *nsubj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Theme |
| 2 | **like** | would | no doubt | some cold fowl |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fowl=Theme |
| 3 | **advise** *speech: other* | should | I |  | you |  |  | Brother Wolf *obl* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 4 | **carry off** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | that jar of wine |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Theme |

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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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