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title: Village headmen, monks, servants, local government officials, peasan… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Village headmen, monks, servants, local government officials, peasants, traders—these and many others have contributed to my store. 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 22

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Village headmen, monks, servants, local government officials, peasants, traders—these and many others have contributed to my store.

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**What happens:** contribute · **To what, where:** Village headmen, store

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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: 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:pg75000:1:22
# text = Village headmen, monks, servants, local government officials, peasants, traders—these and many others have contributed to my store.
1	Village	village	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	headmen	headman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	traders	trader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	contributed	contribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contribute** | present · perfect · passive |  | Village headmen and monks and servants and local government officials and peasants and traders and many others | my store |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to store=Recipient |

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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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