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title: I can pull down the largest stag or tackle the fiercest boar with im… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: I can pull down the largest stag or tackle the fiercest boar with impunity. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 14

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I can pull down the largest stag or tackle the fiercest boar with impunity.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** pull down, tackle · **To what, where:** largest stag, fiercest boar

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg75000:3:14
# text = I can pull down the largest stag or tackle the fiercest boar with impunity.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tackle	tackle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fiercest	fierce	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	impunity	impunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull down** | can | I | the largest stag |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Theme |
| 2 | **tackle** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the fiercest boar |  |  |  | with impunity | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent boar=Theme with impunity=Instrument |

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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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