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title: The King, who was a greedy and unscrupulous man, determined to gain… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The King, who was a greedy and unscrupulous man, determined to gain possession of so valuable a Boy, so he sent out some of his servants to bring the Boy up to the palace. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Mouse’s Three Children., w
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 23

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The King, who was a greedy and unscrupulous man, determined to gain possession of so valuable a Boy, so he sent out some of his servants to bring the Boy up to the palace.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** be, gain, send out, bring up, possess · **To what, where:** greedy man, possession, servants, Boy, valuable Boy

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Mouse’s Three Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg75000:13:23
# text = The King, who was a greedy and unscrupulous man, determined to gain possession of so valuable a Boy, so he sent out some of his servants to bring the Boy up to the palace.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	unscrupulous	unscrupulous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the King | a greedy man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gain** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | possession of a valuable Boy |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme |
| 4 | **send out** | past | the King | Boy's servants |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme |
| 5 | **bring up** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | the Boy |  |  |  | to the palace | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boy=Patient |
| 6 | **possess** |  |  | a valuable Boy |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act 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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