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title: You poor animals live in a hole in the forest, exposed to wind, rain… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: You poor animals live in a hole in the forest, exposed to wind, rain, cold and heat; and all your strength is of no value to make a house like this. Who acts: You, forest, strength. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man.,
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 66

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You poor animals live in a hole in the forest, exposed to wind, rain, cold and heat; and all your strength is of no value to make a house like this.

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**Who acts:** You, forest, strength · **What happens:** live, expose, be, make · **To what, where:** hole, wind, house

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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 (You, forest, strength), 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:pg75000:3:66
# text = You poor animals live in a hole in the forest, exposed to wind, rain, cold and heat; and all your strength is of no value to make a house like this.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	exposed	expose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | You |  |  | a hole in the forest |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hole=Location |
| 2 | **expose** | participle | the forest *not said here* | wind and rain |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wind=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | your strength |  |  |  |  | of no value | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | a house |  |  |  | like this | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product |

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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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