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title: So you, Brother Wolf, and you, Brother Fox, can put your heads throu… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So you, Brother Wolf, and you, Brother Fox, can put your heads through these smaller loops, and I will seize the loose end of the rope with my teeth, and when I give the signal we will all pull together.” Who acts: you, I, we. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 42

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So you, Brother Wolf, and you, Brother Fox, can put your heads through these smaller loops, and I will seize the loose end of the rope with my teeth, and when I give the signal we will all pull together.”

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**Who acts:** you, I, we · **What happens:** fox, put, seize, give, pull together · **To what, where:** heads, smaller loops, loose end, signal

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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 (you, I, 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:pg75000:8:42
# text = So you, Brother Wolf, and you, Brother Fox, can put your heads through these smaller loops, and I will seize the loose end of the rope with my teeth, and when I give the signal we will all pull together.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Brother	brother	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	loops	loop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
37	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	advcl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
43	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	all	all	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
46	together	together	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fox** |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | can | you | your heads |  | this smaller loops |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme through loop=Destination |
| 3 | **seize** | future | I | the loose end of the rope |  |  |  | with my teeth | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | present | I | the signal |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme |
| 5 | **pull together** | future | we |  |  |  |  | all, together *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=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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