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title: Here are the soles of the Prime Minister’s boots in my wallet, and I… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Here are the soles of the Prime Minister’s boots in my wallet, and I propose to present them to His Majesty this afternoon during his public audience. Who acts: soles, I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Three Thieves., with its depen
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 31

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Here are the soles of the Prime Minister’s boots in my wallet, and I propose to present them to His Majesty this afternoon during his public audience.

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**Who acts:** soles, I · **What happens:** be, propose, present · **To what, where:** soles, Majesty

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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 (soles, 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:pg75000:15:31
# text = Here are the soles of the Prime Minister’s boots in my wallet, and I propose to present them to His Majesty this afternoon during his public audience.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	soles	sole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	8	compound	_	_
8	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wallet	wallet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	propose	propose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	during	during	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the soles of the Prime Minister's boots in my wallet |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **propose** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **present** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | soles *= sole* | Emperor's Majesty |  | during Emperor's public audience; afternoon |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to majesty=Recipient |

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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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