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title: By the Treasurer’s orders, the gates were at once thrown open, and t… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: By the Treasurer’s orders, the gates were at once thrown open, and the officials, entering the treasury, began the enumeration. Who acts: orders, Treasurer. 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
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 81

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By the Treasurer’s orders, the gates were at once thrown open, and the officials, entering the treasury, began the enumeration.

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**Who acts:** orders, Treasurer · **What happens:** throw, enter, begin, order · **To what, where:** gates, treasury, 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 (orders, Treasurer), 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:pg75000:15:81
# text = By the Treasurer’s orders, the gates were at once thrown open, and the officials, entering the treasury, began the enumeration.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Treasurer	Treasurer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	obl	_	_
12	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	treasury	treasury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	enumeration	enumeration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past · passive | the Treasurer's orders | the gates |  |  |  | the officials *conj*; open *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent subject=Theme at once=Destination |
| 2 | **enter** | gerund | the Treasurer's orders *not said here* | the treasury |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme treasury=Destination |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the Treasurer's orders *not said here* | the enumeration |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enumeration=Eventuality |
| 4 | **order** |  | the Treasurer |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «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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