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title: At the end of three years I will return here, and will claim from yo… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: At the end of three years I will return here, and will claim from you one of each to follow me and serve me and to obey my orders in all matters.” Who acts: I, my. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., with its dependency
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 11

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At the end of three years I will return here, and will claim from you one of each to follow me and serve me and to obey my orders in all matters.”

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** return, claim, follow, serve, obey, order · **To what, where:** end, me, orders, matters

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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:pg75000:17:11
# text = At the end of three years I will return here, and will claim from you one of each to follow me and serve me and to obey my orders in all matters.”
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	claim	claim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | future | I |  |  | here | at the end of three years |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | future | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from one  you of each | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **follow** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **serve** | infinitive | I *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute |
| 5 | **obey** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my orders |  | all matters |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 6 | **order** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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