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title: If you can lend us the grain we require, we will repay you faithfull… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: If you can lend us the grain we require, we will repay you faithfully with interest at the next harvest.” Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Country of the Mice., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 13

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If you can lend us the grain we require, we will repay you faithfully with interest at the next harvest.”

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** lend, require, repay · **To what, where:** grain, us, you

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Country of the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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:pg75000:20:13
# text = If you can lend us the grain we require, we will repay you faithfully with interest at the next harvest.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	require	require	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	repay	repay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	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 | **lend** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | the grain | us |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient grain=Theme |
| 2 | **require** | present | we | the grain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme grain=Precondition |
| 3 | **repay** | future | we |  | you |  |  | with interest at the next harvest; faithfully *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with interest=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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