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title: This Tiger and I have a small matter which we wish to refer to you f… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: This Tiger and I have a small matter which we wish to refer to you for an opinion.” Who acts: Tiger, we. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 51

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This Tiger and I have a small matter which we wish to refer to you for an opinion.”

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**Who acts:** Tiger, we · **What happens:** have, wish, refer · **To what, where:** small matter, you

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiger, we), 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:pg75000:4:51
# text = This Tiger and I have a small matter which we wish to refer to you for an opinion.”
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	refer	refer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | this Tiger  I | a small matter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Patient |
| 2 | **wish** | present | we | a small matter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **refer** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  | you |  |  | for a opinion | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to you=Co-Theme |

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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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