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title: Presently all sense of constraint is lost, and I have known a story… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently all sense of constraint is lost, and I have known a story interrupted for ten minutes at a time by the uncontrollable merriment aroused by some comic incident. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Opening, with its dependency tree a
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# Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 25

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Presently all sense of constraint is lost, and I have known a story interrupted for ten minutes at a time by the uncontrollable merriment aroused by some comic incident.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** lose, know, interrupt, arouse, sense · **To what, where:** sense, story, uncontrollable merriment, constraint

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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 (I), 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:pg75000:1:25
# text = Presently all sense of constraint is lost, and I have known a story interrupted for ten minutes at a time by the uncontrollable merriment aroused by some comic incident.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	constraint	constraint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	uncontrollable	uncontrollable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	merriment	merriment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
26	aroused	arouse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
29	comic	comic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present · passive |  | all sense of constraint |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **know** | present · perfect | I | a story |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
| 3 | **interrupt** | participle |  | a story *not said here* |  |  | minute; time | by the uncontrollable merriment | tree rules |
| 4 | **arouse** | participle |  | the uncontrollable merriment *not said here* |  |  |  | by some comic incident | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **sense** |  |  | constraint |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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