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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 3

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In response to this notice many Lamas and recluses presented themselves at the palace, and by means of prayers and religious ceremonies they endeavoured to obtain from the gods what the King and Queen desired; but all their efforts were in vain, and the years passed by without any offspring being born.

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**Who acts:** many Lamas, Lama, King, efforts, years · **What happens:** present, mean, endeavour, obtain, desire, be · **To what, where:** Lama, response, religious ceremonies, gods, offspring

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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 (many Lamas, Lama, King, efforts), 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:pg75000:17:3
# text = In response to this notice many Lamas and recluses presented themselves at the palace, and by means of prayers and religious ceremonies they endeavoured to obtain from the gods what the King and Queen desired; but all their efforts were in vain, and the years passed by without any offspring being born.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Lamas	lama	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	recluses	recluse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	endeavoured	endeavour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	36	obj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
39	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	41	det:predet	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
49	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	conj	_	_
50	by	by	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	without	without	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	53	det	_	_
53	offspring	offspring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
54	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** | past | many Lamas and recluses | Lama |  | response to this notice |  | at the palace | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of prayers and religious ceremonies | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **endeavour** | past | Lama | religious ceremonies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **obtain** | to-infinitive | Lama *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from the gods | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from god=Source |
| 5 | **desire** | past | the King and Queen | the gods |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | King's efforts |  |  |  |  | vain *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **pass** | participle | the years |  |  |  |  | by any offspring | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by offspring=Location |
| 8 | **bear** | gerund · passive |  | any offspring *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |

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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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