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title: [2] And, thirdly, human nature being much the same all the world ove… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: [2] And, thirdly, human nature being much the same all the world over, it was not always possible to find a suitable raconteur in a suitable mood for story-telling. Who acts: human nature, it, suitable mood. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Opening, w
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# Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 17

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\[2\] And, thirdly, human nature being much the same all the world over, it was not always possible to find a suitable raconteur in a suitable mood for story-telling.

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**Who acts:** human nature, it, suitable mood · **What happens:** be, not be, find, tell · **To what, where:** suitable raconteur, suitable mood · **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 (human nature, it, suitable mood), 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:pg75000:1:17
# text = [2] And, thirdly, human nature being much the same all the world over, it was not always possible to find a suitable raconteur in a suitable mood for story-telling.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	thirdly	thirdly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
17	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	23	advmod	_	_
23	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	csubj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	raconteur	raconteur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | human nature |  |  |  |  | 2 *discourse*; over, same, thirdly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | always, possible *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | a suitable raconteur |  | a suitable mood |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raconteur=Topic |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | a suitable mood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | story *compound* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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