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description: But the rest of my little store I give here, and with this one apology: that I have made no attempt to ornament or improve upon them. Who acts: rest, I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 27

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But the rest of my little store I give here, and with this one apology: that I have made no attempt to ornament or improve upon them.

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**Who acts:** rest, I · **What happens:** give, make, ornament, improve · **To what, where:** attempt

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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 (rest, 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:pg75000:1:27
# text = But the rest of my little store I give here, and with this one apology: that I have made no attempt to ornament or improve upon them.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	apology	apology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	ornament	ornament	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	improve	improve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | the rest of my little store |  |  | here |  | I *nsubj*; this one apology *parataxis* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present · perfect | I | no attempt |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Product |
| 3 | **ornament** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | no attempt *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **improve** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon apologies *= apology* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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