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description: I have added to the stories a few verses taken at random from popular Tibetan love-songs, as a sample of the wealth of imagery and genuine poetic sentiment which is to be found amongst the inhabitants of this strange country. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Tr
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# Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 31

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I have added to the stories a few verses taken at random from popular Tibetan love-songs, as a sample of the wealth of imagery and genuine poetic sentiment which is to be found amongst the inhabitants of this strange country.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** add, take, find, sample · **To what, where:** few verses, random, genuine poetic sentiment, wealth

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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:pg75000:1:31
# text = I have added to the stories a few verses taken at random from popular Tibetan love-songs, as a sample of the wealth of imagery and genuine poetic sentiment which is to be found amongst the inhabitants of this strange country.
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	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:agent	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
10	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	random	random	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
15	Tibetan	Tibetan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
16	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sample	sample	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	imagery	imagery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	genuine	genuine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	poetic	poetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	sentiment	sentiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl:relcl	_	_
37	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
42	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | the stories *obl:agent*; a few verses *parataxis* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | participle |  | a few verses *not said here* |  | random |  | from popular Tibetan love songs and a sample of the wealth of imagery and genuine poetic sentiment | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at random=Asset from song=Source |
| 3 | **find** | present · passive |  | genuine poetic sentiment |  |  |  | amongst the inhabitants of this strange country | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **sample** |  |  | the wealth of imagery |  |  |  |  | nom sample «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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