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title: “That is right, Brother Monkey, bring him along quickly; we are all… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “That is right, Brother Monkey, bring him along quickly; we are all half starved. Who acts: That. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Jackals and the Tiger., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 33

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“That is right, Brother Monkey, bring him along quickly; we are all half starved.

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**Who acts:** That · **What happens:** be, bring, starve · **To what, where:** Monkey, we

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Jackals and the Tiger.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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:pg75000:14:33
# text = “That is right, Brother Monkey, bring him along quickly; we are all half starved.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Brother	brother	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	along	along	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	18	advmod	_	_
18	starved	starve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That |  |  |  |  | Brother Monkey *conj*; right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | That *not said here* |  | Monkey |  |  | along, quickly *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 3 | **starve** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | we |  |  |  | all, half *property* | 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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