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title: Do you not know that human beings are of a coarser essence than ours… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Do you not know that human beings are of a coarser essence than ourselves and are repugnant and abhorrent to us? Who acts: you, human beings. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., with its dependency tree and t
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 82

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Do you not know that human beings are of a coarser essence than ourselves and are repugnant and abhorrent to us?

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**Who acts:** you, human beings · **What happens:** not know, be · **To what, where:** us · **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 Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, human beings), 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:pg75000:16:82
# text = Do you not know that human beings are of a coarser essence than ourselves and are repugnant and abhorrent to us?
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
6	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	coarser	coarse	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	essence	essence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	repugnant	repugnant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	abhorrent	abhorrent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | human beings |  |  |  |  | of a coarser essence; than ourselves | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | repugnant *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | you *not said here* |  | us |  |  |  | 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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