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title: But patience, and the growth of kindly feelings on both sides, helpe… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: But patience, and the growth of kindly feelings on both sides, helped me to some extent to overcome the shyness and reluctance of the simple folk who have supplied me with my material; and, as time went on, I was able to coax a story from many unlikely sources. Who acts: patience, simple folk, I, fe
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# Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 21

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But patience, and the growth of kindly feelings on both sides, helped me to some extent to overcome the shyness and reluctance of the simple folk who have supplied me with my material; and, as time went on, I was able to coax a story from many unlikely sources.

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**Who acts:** patience, simple folk, I, feelings · **What happens:** help, overcome, supply, go on, be, coax · **To what, where:** me, shyness, story, many unlikely sources

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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 (patience, simple folk, I, feelings), 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:pg75000:1:21
# text = But patience, and the growth of kindly feelings on both sides, helped me to some extent to overcome the shyness and reluctance of the simple folk who have supplied me with my material; and, as time went on, I was able to coax a story from many unlikely sources.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	shyness	shyness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	reluctance	reluctance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	supplied	supply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl:unmarked	_	_
41	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
42	on	on	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
44	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	coax	coax	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	from	from	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
53	unlikely	unlikely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | past | patience |  | me |  |  | to some extent | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **overcome** | to-infinitive | patience *not said here* | the shyness and reluctance of the simple folk |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot shyness=Theme |
| 3 | **supply** | present · perfect | the simple folk |  | me |  |  | with my material | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with material=Theme |
| 4 | **go on** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **coax** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a story |  | many unlikely sources |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient |
| 7 | **grow** |  | feelings on both sides |  |  |  |  |  | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=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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