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title: “For instance, I could tell the King something about Prince Baki, wh… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “For instance, I could tell the King something about Prince Baki, which perhaps he would not like to hear.” Who acts: shell, Baki. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 94

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“For instance, I could tell the King something about Prince Baki, which perhaps he would not like to hear.”

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**Who acts:** shell, Baki · **What happens:** tell, not like, hear · **To what, where:** something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (shell, Baki), 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:pg75000:22:94
# text = “For instance, I could tell the King something about Prince Baki, which perhaps he would not like to hear.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:desc	_	_
13	Baki	Baki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
16	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | could | the shell *= shell* | something |  |  |  | for instance; about Baki  Prince | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent something=Recipient about baki=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **like** *in a quote* | would | Baki |  |  |  |  | which *obj*; perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Baki *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=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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