--- title: “If this does not happen, I will hand you over my house, my merchand… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: “If this does not happen, I will hand you over my house, my merchandise, and everything I possess; but if it does, you will forfeit all your baggage, animals and merchandise to me.” Who acts: this, Landlord, merchandise, everything. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, Landlord, merchandise, everything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:7:103 # text = “If this does not happen, I will hand you over my house, my merchandise, and everything I possess; but if it does, you will forfeit all your baggage, animals and merchandise to me.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 3 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 hand hand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ _ 12 over over ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 merchandise merchandise NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 20 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 31 nsubj _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 possess possess VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 forfeit forfeit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 32 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 34 det:predet _ _ 33 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 baggage baggage NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 merchandise merchandise NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **happen** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | this | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hand** *in a quote* | future | the Landlord *= landlord* | | you | my house and my merchandise | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 3 | **possess** *in a quote* | present | the Landlord *= landlord* | | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | merchandise | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **forfeit** *in a quote* | future | everything | your baggage and animals and merchandise | the Landlord *= landlord* | | | you *nsubj* | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent baggage=Theme to i=Recipient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/102/) - next →: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/104/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/)