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title: I propose, therefore, that in spite of our real opinion in the matte… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: I propose, therefore, that in spite of our real opinion in the matter we should make a public announcement to the effect that the King was right in his argument.” Who acts: I, we, King, our. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 24

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I propose, therefore, that in spite of our real opinion in the matter we should make a public announcement to the effect that the King was right in his argument.”

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**Who acts:** I, we, King, our · **What happens:** propose, make, be, spite, opine, argue · **To what, where:** public announcement, spite, effect, argument, real opinion, matter

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we, King, our), 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:pg75000:22:24
# text = I propose, therefore, that in spite of our real opinion in the matter we should make a public announcement to the effect that the King was right in his argument.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	propose	propose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	announcement	announcement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	acl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | present | I |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | should | we | a public announcement |  | spite of our real opinion in the matter |  | to the effect | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent announcement=Product |
| 3 | **is** | past | the King | the effect *not said here* |  | King's argument |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **spite** |  |  | our real opinion in the matter |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **opine** |  | our |  |  | the matter |  |  | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
| 6 | **argue** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom argument «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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