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title: The Prime Minister was delighted at being reinstated in the royal fa… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prime Minister was delighted at being reinstated in the royal favour, and expressed his gratitude to the Thief for his services in the matter. Who acts: Prime Minister, Emperor. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Three Thieves., wit
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 59

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The Prime Minister was delighted at being reinstated in the royal favour, and expressed his gratitude to the Thief for his services in the matter.

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**Who acts:** Prime Minister, Emperor · **What happens:** be, reinstate, express, service · **To what, where:** royal favour, gratitude, Thief, matter

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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 (Prime Minister, 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:pg75000:15:59
# text = The Prime Minister was delighted at being reinstated in the royal favour, and expressed his gratitude to the Thief for his services in the matter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	3	compound	_	_
3	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	reinstated	reinstate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	expressed	express	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	for	for	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	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Prime Minister |  |  |  |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reinstate** | gerund · passive | the Prime Minister *not said here* |  |  | the royal favour |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **express** | past | the Prime Minister *not said here* | Emperor's gratitude | the Thief for Emperor's services in the matter |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gratitude=Theme to thief=Recipient |
| 4 | **service** |  | Emperor |  |  | the matter |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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