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title: It is my habit every day to descend to this lake in the form of a wh… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: It is my habit every day to descend to this lake in the form of a white Drake, and to amuse myself by swimming round and round. Who acts: region. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., with its dependency tree a
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 20

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It is my habit every day to descend to this lake in the form of a white Drake, and to amuse myself by swimming round and round.

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**Who acts:** region · **What happens:** be, descend, amuse, swim, form · **To what, where:** habit, lake, myself, white Drake

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (region), 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:pg75000:16:20
# text = It is my habit every day to descend to this lake in the form of a white Drake, and to amuse myself by swimming round and round.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	descend	descend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Drake	drake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	amuse	amuse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
26	round	round	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	round	round	ADV	RB	_	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | region | my habit |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **descend** | to-infinitive | region *not said here* |  |  | this lake in the form of a white Drake |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to lake=Location |
| 3 | **amuse** | to-infinitive |  | myself |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer |
| 4 | **swim** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **form** |  |  | a white Drake |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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