--- title: “I have thought over what you said to me yesterday, and I am now pre… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: “I have thought over what you said to me yesterday, and I am now prepared to make a bet with you that the cat will not carry a lantern into this room at dusk this evening.” Who acts: bet, you, cat. 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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 (bet, you, cat), 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:pg75000:7:116 # text = “I have thought over what you said to me yesterday, and I am now prepared to make a bet with you that the cat will not carry a lantern into this room at dusk this evening.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 over over ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 obl _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 yesterday yesterday NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 16 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 17 prepared prepare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bet bet NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 lantern lantern NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 det _ _ 34 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 dusk dusk NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 37 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 38 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · perfect | bet | | | | | what *obl* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | you | | bet | | yesterday | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | | 3 | **prepare** *in a quote* | present · passive | | bet | | | now | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | a bet | | | | with you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bet=Product | | 5 | **not** **carry** *in a quote* | future | the cat | a lantern | | this room | dusk; evening | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=Theme | 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 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/115/) - next →: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/117/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/)