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title: There were the Head Chamberlain and the Under Chamberlains, the Head… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: There were the Head Chamberlain and the Under Chamberlains, the Head Usher and the Under Ushers, the Head Waiter and the Under Waiters, and many other officials of minor degree. Who acts: Head Chamberlain. 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 35

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There were the Head Chamberlain and the Under Chamberlains, the Head Usher and the Under Ushers, the Head Waiter and the Under Waiters, and many other officials of minor degree.

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**Who acts:** Head Chamberlain · **What happens:** be

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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 (Head Chamberlain), 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:pg75000:15:35
# text = There were the Head Chamberlain and the Under Chamberlains, the Head Usher and the Under Ushers, the Head Waiter and the Under Waiters, and many other officials of minor degree.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Head	Head	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Chamberlain	Chamberlain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Under	Under	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Chamberlains	Chamberlain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Head	Head	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Usher	Usher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Under	Under	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Ushers	usher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Waiter	Waiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Under	Under	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Waiters	Waiter	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	minor	minor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **be** | past | the Head Chamberlain and the Under Chamberlains and the Head Usher and the Under Ushers and the Head Waiter and the Under Waiters |  |  | there |  | many other officials of minor degree *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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