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title: In presenting these little stories to the public, it may perhaps be… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: In presenting these little stories to the public, it may perhaps be of interest if I describe how I came by them. Who acts: public, I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 11

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In presenting these little stories to the public, it may perhaps be of interest if I describe how I came by them.

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**Who acts:** public, I · **What happens:** present, be, describe, come · **To what, where:** little stories, public

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (public, I), 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:pg75000:1:11
# text = In presenting these little stories to the public, it may perhaps be of interest if I describe how I came by them.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	presenting	present	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	public	public	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
12	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	describe	describe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** | gerund | public *not said here* | this little stories | the public |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Theme to public=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | may | public |  |  |  |  | of interest; perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **describe** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | I |  |  |  |  | by stories *= story* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by they=Location |

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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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