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title: We are threatened with invasion by a foreign army, outnumbering mine… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: We are threatened with invasion by a foreign army, outnumbering mine by many thousands, and all the men I can muster will not be sufficient to enable me to repel the enemy. Who acts: foreign army, I, men, me. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Count
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 29

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We are threatened with invasion by a foreign army, outnumbering mine by many thousands, and all the men I can muster will not be sufficient to enable me to repel the enemy.

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**Who acts:** foreign army, I, men, me · **What happens:** threaten, outnumber, muster, not be, enable, repel · **To what, where:** We, mine, men, me, enemy

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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 (foreign army, I, men, me), 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:pg75000:20:29
# text = We are threatened with invasion by a foreign army, outnumbering mine by many thousands, and all the men I can muster will not be sufficient to enable me to repel the enemy.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	outnumbering	outnumber	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	muster	muster	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	enable	enable	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	repel	repel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **threaten** | present · passive | a foreign army | We |  |  |  | with invasion | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **outnumber** | gerund | a foreign army *not said here* | mine |  |  |  | by many thousands | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot my=Theme |
| 3 | **muster** | can | I | all men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | future | all men |  |  |  |  | sufficient *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **enable** | to-infinitive | all men *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **repel** | to-infinitive | me *not said here* | the enemy |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus enemy=Experiencer |

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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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