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title: “How is it,” said they, “that you have dared, unordered, to bring in… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “How is it,” said they, “that you have dared, unordered, to bring into our presence an inhabitant of the human world? Who acts: midst, you. 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 and the
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 81

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“How is it,” said they, “that you have dared, unordered, to bring into our presence an inhabitant of the human world?

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**Who acts:** midst, you · **What happens:** be, say, dare, unorder, bring · **To what, where:** midst, inhabitant, presence · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (midst, you), 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:pg75000:16:81
# text = “How is it,” said they, “that you have dared, unordered, to bring into our presence an inhabitant of the human world?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	dared	dare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	unordered	unorder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	inhabitant	inhabitant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | midst |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | midst |  |  |  |  | gods *= god* *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dare** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **unorder** *in a quote* | participle | midst *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bring** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | midst *not said here* | a inhabitant of the human world |  | our presence |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Theme into presence=Destination |

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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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