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title: “Very well, if your hard-hearted brother insists on turning you out… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Very well, if your hard-hearted brother insists on turning you out of the house, I will accompany you. Who acts: hard hearted brother, woman. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Stone Lion., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 7

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“Very well, if your hard-hearted brother insists on turning you out of the house, I will accompany you.

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**Who acts:** hard hearted brother, woman · **What happens:** insist, turn, accompany · **To what, where:** you, house

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Stone Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hard hearted brother, woman), 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:pg75000:18:7
# text = “Very well, if your hard-hearted brother insists on turning you out of the house, I will accompany you.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	insists	insist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
12	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	accompany	accompany	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **insist** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | your hard hearted brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **turn** *in a quote* | gerund | your hard hearted brother *not said here* | you |  | the house |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent you=Theme out house=Trajectory |
| 3 | **accompany** *in a quote* | future | woman | you |  |  |  | well *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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