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title: The Chief Treasurer was much perturbed on receiving these orders, fo… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The Chief Treasurer was much perturbed on receiving these orders, for owing to the enormous quantity of jewels and other objects in the Treasury, he foresaw that it would be a difficult matter to have the enumeration complete before evening. Who acts: Treasurer, it. A sentence of «Folk tales from Ti
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 77

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The Chief Treasurer was much perturbed on receiving these orders, for owing to the enormous quantity of jewels and other objects in the Treasury, he foresaw that it would be a difficult matter to have the enumeration complete before evening.

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**Who acts:** Treasurer, it · **What happens:** perturb, receive, owe, foresee, be, have · **To what, where:** Chief Treasurer, orders, Treasury, difficult matter, enumeration

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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 (Treasurer, it), 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:pg75000:15:77
# text = The Chief Treasurer was much perturbed on receiving these orders, for owing to the enormous quantity of jewels and other objects in the Treasury, he foresaw that it would be a difficult matter to have the enumeration complete before evening.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Treasurer	Treasurer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	perturbed	perturb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	owing	owe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Treasury	Treasury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	foresaw	foresee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	ccomp	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	enumeration	enumeration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
41	before	before	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perturb** | past · passive |  | the Chief Treasurer |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **receive** | gerund |  | this orders |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 3 | **owe** | gerund |  |  |  | the Treasury |  | to the enormous quantity of jewels and other objects *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to quantity=Goal |
| 4 | **foresee** | past | Treasurer |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | would | it | a difficult matter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | to-infinitive | Treasurer *not said here* | the enumeration |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enumeration=Patient |

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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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