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title: He raised them at once to high rank, and presented them with lands a… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 91

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He raised them at once to high rank, and presented them with lands and money sufficient to uphold their new status, and they lived happily ever afterwards, enjoying the confidence of the Emperor and the friendship of the numerous officials whom they had saved from imprisonment and death.

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**Who acts:** Emperor, jewels · **What happens:** raise, present, uphold, live, enjoy, save · **To what, where:** jewels, high rank, new status, confidence, numerous officials, imprisonment

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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 (Emperor, jewels), 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:pg75000:15:91
# text = He raised them at once to high rank, and presented them with lands and money sufficient to uphold their new status, and they lived happily ever afterwards, enjoying the confidence of the Emperor and the friendship of the numerous officials whom they had saved from imprisonment and death.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	uphold	uphold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	status	status	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
27	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
29	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
44	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	acl:relcl	_	_
48	from	from	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | past | Emperor | jewels *= jewel* |  | high rank |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme at once=Destination to rank=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **present** | past | Emperor *not said here* | jewels *= jewel* |  |  |  | with lands and money | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Recipient with land=Theme |
| 3 | **uphold** | to-infinitive | Emperor *not said here* | jewels's new status |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | past | jewels *= jewel* |  |  |  | ever | afterwards, happily *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **enjoy** | gerund | jewels *= jewel* *not said here* | the confidence of the Emperor and the friendship of the numerous officials |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer confidence=Stimulus |
| 6 | **save** | past · perfect · passive |  | the numerous officials |  | imprisonment and death |  | jewels *= jewel* *nsubj* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from imprisonment=Source |
| 7 | **confide** |  |  | the Emperor |  |  |  |  | nom confidence «cognition transitive»: of=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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