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title: On arriving at the court they consulted together and came to the con… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: On arriving at the court they consulted together and came to the conclusion that in order to make any headway in China it was necessary to attract the attention of the Emperor. Who acts: Thieves, Emperor. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 16

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On arriving at the court they consulted together and came to the conclusion that in order to make any headway in China it was necessary to attract the attention of the Emperor.

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**Who acts:** Thieves, Emperor · **What happens:** arrive, consult, come, make, be, attract · **To what, where:** court, conclusion, headway, China, attention

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Three Thieves.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thieves, Emperor), 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:pg75000:15:16
# text = On arriving at the court they consulted together and came to the conclusion that in order to make any headway in China it was necessary to attract the attention of the Emperor.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	arriving	arrive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	consulted	consult	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	18	mark	_	_
16	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	fixed	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	headway	headway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	expl	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	attract	attract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | gerund | Thieves *= thief* *not said here* |  |  | the court |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **consult** | past | Thieves *= thief* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | Thieves *= thief* *not said here* |  |  | the conclusion |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to conclusion=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | Thieves *= thief* *not said here* | any headway |  | China |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset headway=Product |
| 5 | **is** | past | Thieves *= thief* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **attract** | to-infinitive | Thieves *= thief* *not said here* | the attention of the Emperor |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient |
| 7 | **attend** |  | the Emperor |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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