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title: Some of the stories, then, I have been obliged, reluctantly enough,… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of the stories, then, I have been obliged, reluctantly enough, to discard altogether for the present; others require further revision or elucidation. Who acts: others. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 26

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Some of the stories, then, I have been obliged, reluctantly enough, to discard altogether for the present; others require further revision or elucidation.

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**Who acts:** others · **What happens:** oblige, discard, require · **To what, where:** Some, further revision

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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 (others), 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:pg75000:1:26
# text = Some of the stories, then, I have been obliged, reluctantly enough, to discard altogether for the present; others require further revision or elucidation.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	reluctantly	reluctantly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	discard	discard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	require	require	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
25	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	revision	revision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	elucidation	elucidation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oblige** | present · perfect · passive |  | Some of the stories |  |  | then | I *nsubj*; enough *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **discard** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for the present; altogether *property* | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **require** | present | others | further revision or elucidation |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme revision=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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