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title: I would suggest to you, instead, that it would be a very much better… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: I would suggest to you, instead, that it would be a very much better plan if you would strangle him, as in that case no blood would be lost, and we should derive the full benefit from his carcase.” Who acts: I, deal, you, case. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 33

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I would suggest to you, instead, that it would be a very much better plan if you would strangle him, as in that case no blood would be lost, and we should derive the full benefit from his carcase.”

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**Who acts:** I, deal, you, case, we · **What happens:** suggest, be, strangle, lose, derive · **To what, where:** you, better plan, Kyang, blood, full benefit, carcase

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, deal, you, case), 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:pg75000:8:33
# text = I would suggest to you, instead, that it would be a very much better plan if you would strangle him, as in that case no blood would be lost, and we should derive the full benefit from his carcase.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	suggest	suggest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	much	much	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	strangle	strangle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	derive	derive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	benefit	benefit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	carcase	carcase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | would | I |  | you |  |  | instead *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | would | deal | a better plan |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **strangle** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | you | Kyang |  |  |  | as that case | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **lose** | would · passive | that case *not said here* | no blood |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 5 | **derive** | should | we | the full benefit |  | Kyang's carcase |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent benefit=Result from carcase=Material |

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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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