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title: And the third was able to eat his fill off a man’s plate during dinn… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: And the third was able to eat his fill off a man’s plate during dinner without the man who was robbed, or his friend opposite, being able to detect where the victuals had gone to. Who acts: third, victuals. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story o
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 5

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And the third was able to eat his fill off a man’s plate during dinner without the man who was robbed, or his friend opposite, being able to detect where the victuals had gone to.

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**Who acts:** third, victuals · **What happens:** be, eat off, rob, detect, go · **To what, where:** fill, man

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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 (third, victuals), 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:pg75000:15:5
# text = And the third was able to eat his fill off a man’s plate during dinner without the man who was robbed, or his friend opposite, being able to detect where the victuals had gone to.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	fill	fill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	during	during	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	without	without	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	robbed	rob	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	opposite	opposite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	cop	_	_
30	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	detect	detect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	37	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	victuals	victual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | past | the third |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat off** | to-infinitive | the third *not said here* | theft's fill |  |  | during dinner | without the man; a man's plate *obl* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient |
| 3 | **rob** | past · passive |  | the man |  |  |  | friend opposite *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **detect** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **go** | past · perfect | the victuals |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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