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title: “Were I inclined to grant this fruit [12] to you, The gift were thin… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Were I inclined to grant this fruit [12] to you, The gift were thine at once—to-day, to-morrow. Who acts: woman. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Some Verses From Tibetan Love-songs., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, Some Verses From Tibetan Love-songs., sentence 8

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“Were I inclined to grant this fruit \[12\] to you, The gift were thine at once—to-day, to-morrow.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** incline, grant, be · **To what, where:** gift, fruit, you, thine

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Some Verses From Tibetan Love-songs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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:pg75000:26:8
# text = “Were I inclined to grant this fruit [12] to you, The gift were thine at once—to-day, to-morrow.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Were	were	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	inclined	incline	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **incline** *in a quote* | past | the woman *= woman* | the gift |  |  | day | to morrow | tree rules |
| 2 | **grant** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the woman *= woman* *not said here* | this fruit | you |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme to you=Goal |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past |  | thine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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