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title: Shyly and haltingly at starting, with many bashful apologies and dis… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Shyly and haltingly at starting, with many bashful apologies and disclaimers, the story-teller will begin his tale. Who acts: story teller, folk. 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 23

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Shyly and haltingly at starting, with many bashful apologies and disclaimers, the story-teller will begin his tale.

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**Who acts:** story teller, folk · **What happens:** start, begin, tell · **To what, where:** tale · **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 (story teller, folk), 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:pg75000:1:23
# text = Shyly and haltingly at starting, with many bashful apologies and disclaimers, the story-teller will begin his tale.
1	Shyly	shyly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	haltingly	haltingly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	starting	start	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	bashful	bashful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	apologies	apology	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	disclaimers	disclaimer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	teller	teller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | haltingly, shyly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **begin** | future | the story teller | folk's tale |  |  |  | with many bashful apologies and disclaimers | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent tale=Eventuality with apology=Subeventuality |
| 3 | **tell** |  | folk |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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