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title: And as to the Cats they are always the persecutors of Mice, and we a… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: And as to the Cats they are always the persecutors of Mice, and we ask you to banish them altogether from your kingdom.” Who acts: Cats, we, persecutors. 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 pragm
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 43

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And as to the Cats they are always the persecutors of Mice, and we ask you to banish them altogether from your kingdom.”

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**Who acts:** Cats, we, persecutors · **What happens:** be, ask, banish · **To what, where:** persecutors, you, Cats, kingdom

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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 (Cats, we, persecutors), 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:pg75000:20:43
# text = And as to the Cats they are always the persecutors of Mice, and we ask you to banish them altogether from your kingdom.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	5	cc	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	persecutors	persecutor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	banish	banish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Cats *= cat* | the persecutors |  |  |  | of Mice; always *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | we | the persecutors *not said here* | you |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **banish** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the persecutors *not said here* | Cats *= cat* |  | your kingdom |  | altogether *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from kingdom=Source |

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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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