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title: In three months’ time a child will be born to each, to be followed b… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: In three months’ time a child will be born to each, to be followed by two others at intervals of one month.” Who acts: two others. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 15

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In three months’ time a child will be born to each, to be followed by two others at intervals of one month.”

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**Who acts:** two others · **What happens:** bear, follow · **To what, where:** time, intervals

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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 (two others), 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:pg75000:17:15
# text = In three months’ time a child will be born to each, to be followed by two others at intervals of one month.”
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:agent	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	intervals	interval	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | future · passive |  | three months's time |  |  |  | to each; a child *nsubj:pass* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **follow** | to-infinitive · passive | two others |  |  | intervals of one month |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at interval=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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