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title: Whereas I, although I am so much weaker than you, can build myself a… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Whereas I, although I am so much weaker than you, can build myself a fine house, where I live at my ease, indifferent to the weather and secure from the attacks of wild animals.” Who acts: I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 67

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Whereas I, although I am so much weaker than you, can build myself a fine house, where I live at my ease, indifferent to the weather and secure from the attacks of wild animals.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, build, live, secure, attack · **To what, where:** myself, ease, attacks, wild animals

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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:pg75000:3:67
# text = Whereas I, although I am so much weaker than you, can build myself a fine house, where I live at my ease, indifferent to the weather and secure from the attacks of wild animals.”
1	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	build	build	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	secure	secure	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	attacks	attack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | than you; weak *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | can |  | myself |  |  |  | a fine house *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset myself=Beneficiary house=Product |
| 3 | **live** | present | I |  |  | my ease |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at ease=Location |
| 4 | **secure** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | the attacks of wild animals |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from attack=Source |
| 5 | **attack** |  |  | wild animals |  |  |  |  | nom attack «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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