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title: For some time the issue was doubtful, but the young man at length su… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: For some time the issue was doubtful, but the young man at length succeeded with one well-delivered blow in severing the Dragon’s head from its neck, and the monster fell dead upon the beach. Who acts: issue, young man, monster. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 64

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For some time the issue was doubtful, but the young man at length succeeded with one well-delivered blow in severing the Dragon’s head from its neck, and the monster fell dead upon the beach.

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**Who acts:** issue, young man, monster · **What happens:** be, succeed, deliver, sever, fall · **To what, where:** head, neck, beach

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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 (issue, young man, monster), 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:pg75000:16:64
# text = For some time the issue was doubtful, but the young man at length succeeded with one well-delivered blow in severing the Dragon’s head from its neck, and the monster fell dead upon the beach.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	delivered	deliver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	severing	sever	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
36	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
37	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the issue |  |  |  | time | doubtful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **succeed** | past | the young man at length |  |  |  |  | with one delivered blow | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **deliver** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sever** | gerund | the young man at length *not said here* | the Dragon's head |  | Dragon's neck |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme from neck=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **fall** | past | the monster |  |  | the beach |  | dead *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon beach=Location |

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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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