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title: “Yes, please, Brother Hare,” said the Boy, thinking he would climb t… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Yes, please, Brother Hare,” said the Boy, thinking he would climb the tree and take the Raven’s eggs. Who acts: Brother. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 44

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“Yes, please, Brother Hare,” said the Boy, thinking he would climb the tree and take the Raven’s eggs.

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**Who acts:** Brother · **What happens:** say, think, climb, take · **To what, where:** tree, eggs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How the Hare Got His Split Lip.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brother), 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:pg75000:2:44
# text = “Yes, please, Brother Hare,” said the Boy, thinking he would climb the tree and take the Raven’s eggs.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Brother |  |  |  |  | the Boy *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **climb** | would | Brother | the tree |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | Brother *not said here* | the Raven's eggs |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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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