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title: The Emperor’s orders are that, unless a satisfactory explanation is… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The Emperor’s orders are that, unless a satisfactory explanation is given to him before six o’clock this evening and the missing soles produced, the Minister is to be beheaded. Who acts: missing soles, Emperor. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Sto
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 30

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The Emperor’s orders are that, unless a satisfactory explanation is given to him before six o’clock this evening and the missing soles produced, the Minister is to be beheaded.

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**Who acts:** missing soles, Emperor · **What happens:** give, produce, behead, order · **To what, where:** orders, Emperor, Minister, evening

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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 (missing soles, 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:pg75000:15:30
# text = The Emperor’s orders are that, unless a satisfactory explanation is given to him before six o’clock this evening and the missing soles produced, the Minister is to be beheaded.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	satisfactory	satisfactory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	before	before	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	soles	sole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
25	produced	produce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	beheaded	behead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **give** | present · passive |  | the Emperor's orders | Emperor |  |  | a satisfactory explanation *nsubj:pass*; six o’clock *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient o'clock=Theme |
| 2 | **produce** | participle | the missing soles *not said here* | the Minister |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **behead** | present · passive |  | this evening and the missing soles |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **order** |  | the Emperor |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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