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title: I have written them down just as I heard them, and have translated t… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: I have written them down just as I heard them, and have translated them, as accurately as I could, from the Tibetan idiom into ours. Who acts: 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 clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 28

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I have written them down just as I heard them, and have translated them, as accurately as I could, from the Tibetan idiom into ours.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** write down, hear, translate · **To what, where:** 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 (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:pg75000:1:28
# text = I have written them down just as I heard them, and have translated them, as accurately as I could, from the Tibetan idiom into ours.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
14	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Tibetan	Tibetan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	idiom	idiom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write down** | present · perfect | I | revision |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | I | revision |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 3 | **translate** | infinitive · perfect | I *not said here* | revision |  |  |  | the Tibetan idiom into ours *parataxis*; accurately *property* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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