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title: By nightfall the enumeration was complete, the lists were all handed… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: By nightfall the enumeration was complete, the lists were all handed over to the Chief Treasurer, and the Treasury was left locked and guarded as before. Who acts: enumeration, Chief, Treasury. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Three T
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 83

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By nightfall the enumeration was complete, the lists were all handed over to the Chief Treasurer, and the Treasury was left locked and guarded as before.

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**Who acts:** enumeration, Chief, Treasury · **What happens:** be, hand over, leave, lock, guard · **To what, where:** nightfall, lists, Treasury

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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 (enumeration, Chief, Treasury), 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:pg75000:15:83
# text = By nightfall the enumeration was complete, the lists were all handed over to the Chief Treasurer, and the Treasury was left locked and guarded as before.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	enumeration	enumeration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lists	list	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl:agent	_	_
17	Treasurer	Treasurer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Treasury	Treasury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
24	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	before	before	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the enumeration | nightfall *not said here* |  |  |  | complete *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hand over** | past · passive | the Chief | the lists |  |  |  | by nightfall; all *property* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | past · passive |  | the Treasury |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lock** | participle | the Treasury *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **guard** | participle | the Treasury *not said here* |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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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