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title: So before rewarding you in accordance with my promise, I desire to p… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So before rewarding you in accordance with my promise, I desire to put your skill to a further test. Who acts: I, my. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Three Thieves., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 66

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So before rewarding you in accordance with my promise, I desire to put your skill to a further test.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** reward, desire, put, promise · **To what, where:** you, accordance, skill

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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 (I, my), 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:pg75000:15:66
# text = So before rewarding you in accordance with my promise, I desire to put your skill to a further test.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	rewarding	reward	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	accordance	accordance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	desire	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reward** | gerund |  |  | you | accordance |  | with my promise | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with promise=Theme |
| 2 | **desire** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **put** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | your skill |  |  |  | to a further test | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent skill=Goal |
| 4 | **promise** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «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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