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title: If you like, I can easily get several other Monkeys from amongst my… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: If you like, I can easily get several other Monkeys from amongst my friends to accompany us to your home.” Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 31

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If you like, I can easily get several other Monkeys from amongst my friends to accompany us to your home.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** like, get, accompany · **To what, where:** several other Monkeys, us, home

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg75000:21:31
# text = If you like, I can easily get several other Monkeys from amongst my friends to accompany us to your home.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	accompany	accompany	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **get** | can | I | several other Monkeys |  |  |  | from my friends; easily *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme from friend=Source |
| 3 | **accompany** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | us |  | your home |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme to home=Destination |

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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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