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title: Secretary and Interpreter of the Mission to Lhasa (1904) — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Secretary and Interpreter of the Mission to Lhasa (1904) 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 6

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Secretary and Interpreter of the Mission to Lhasa (1904)

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**To what, where:** Secretary

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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: 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:pg75000:1:6
# text = Secretary and Interpreter of the Mission to Lhasa (1904)
1	Secretary	Secretary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Interpreter	Interpreter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Mission	mission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Lhasa	Lhasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	1904	1904	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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