--- title: “Dear me, Brother Tortoise,” said he, “I am very much grieved to hea… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: “Dear me, Brother Tortoise,” said he, “I am very much grieved to hear of your wife’s illness, but if she is as bad as all that I do not think that one Monkey’s heart will be enough. Who acts: Tortoise, friend, heart. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tortoise, friend, heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:21:29 # text = “Dear me, Brother Tortoise,” said he, “I am very much grieved to hear of your wife’s illness, but if she is as bad as all that I do not think that one Monkey’s heart will be enough. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 Brother Brother PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Tortoise Tortoise PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 14 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 15 very very ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 much much ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 grieved grieve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ’s 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 as as ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 parataxis _ _ 32 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 33 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 31 conj _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 40 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 Monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’s 's PART POS _ 41 case _ _ 43 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 44 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 45 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 46 cop _ _ 46 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tortoise | | | | | me *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **grieve** *in a quote* | present · passive | Tortoise | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **hear** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Tortoise *not said here* | | | | | of your wife's illness | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of illness=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | friend | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · do-support | Tortoise | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | future | one Monkey's heart | | | | | enough *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/21/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/21/30/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/21/)