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title: “I can prove to you that I am telling the truth by showing you a str… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “I can prove to you that I am telling the truth by showing you a stranger thing than anything which I have hitherto related. Who acts: Landlord. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., with its dependency tree and t
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 98

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“I can prove to you that I am telling the truth by showing you a stranger thing than anything which I have hitherto related.

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**Who acts:** Landlord · **What happens:** prove, tell, show, have · **To what, where:** you, truth, stranger thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Landlord), 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:pg75000:7:98
# text = “I can prove to you that I am telling the truth by showing you a stranger thing than anything which I have hitherto related.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	nmod	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** *in a quote* | can | the Landlord *= landlord* |  | you |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to you=Experiencer |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · progressive | the Landlord *= landlord* | the truth |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
| 3 | **show** *in a quote* | gerund | the Landlord *= landlord* *not said here* | a stranger thing | you |  |  | than anything | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient thing=Topic |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the Landlord *= landlord* |  |  |  |  | which *obj*; related *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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