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title: A good story must be natural, and necessitates sympathy on the part… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: A good story must be natural, and necessitates sympathy on the part both of teller and of hearer. Who acts: good story. 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 19

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A good story must be natural, and necessitates sympathy on the part both of teller and of hearer.

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**Who acts:** good story · **What happens:** be, necessitate · **To what, where:** sympathy, part

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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 (good story), 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:pg75000:1:19
# text = A good story must be natural, and necessitates sympathy on the part both of teller and of hearer.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	necessitates	necessitate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	teller	teller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	hearer	hearer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | must | a good story |  |  |  |  | natural *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **necessitate** | present |  | sympathy |  | the part  both of teller and hearer |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sympathy=Precondition |

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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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