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title: In the first place, I found that many of the best known stories had… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: In the first place, I found that many of the best known stories had been imported bodily from India [1] or China, and possess but little of that local colouring which is one of the chief charms of folk-lore. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Conno
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# Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 15

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In the first place, I found that many of the best known stories had been imported bodily from India \[1\] or China, and possess but little of that local colouring which is one of the chief charms of folk-lore.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** find, know, import, possess, be · **To what, where:** first place, many, India, little one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg75000:1:15
# text = In the first place, I found that many of the best known stories had been imported bodily from India [1] or China, and possess but little of that local colouring which is one of the chief charms of folk-lore.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
13	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	imported	import	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
18	bodily	bodily	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
33	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	colouring	colouring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	charms	charm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | I |  |  | the first place |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **import** | past · perfect · passive |  | many of the best known stories |  | India or China |  | bodily *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from india=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **possess** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  | little one |  |  |  | of that local colouring; of the chief charms of folk lore; which *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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