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title: Secondly, some of the very best and most characteristic stories are… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Secondly, some of the very best and most characteristic stories are unfit for publication in such a book as this. Who acts: most characteristic stories. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 16

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Secondly, some of the very best and most characteristic stories are unfit for publication in such a book as this.

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**Who acts:** most characteristic stories · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** book

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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 (most characteristic stories), 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:pg75000:1:16
# text = Secondly, some of the very best and most characteristic stories are unfit for publication in such a book as this.
1	Secondly	secondly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
10	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	unfit	unfit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	publication	publication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	19	det:predet	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | most characteristic stories |  |  | such book as this |  | for publication; unfit *property* | 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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