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title: He, however, is unable to obtain any power over the body of a human… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: He, however, is unable to obtain any power over the body of a human being unless that being directly disobeys his orders. Who acts: person, that. 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 prag
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 48

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He, however, is unable to obtain any power over the body of a human being unless that being directly disobeys his orders.

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**Who acts:** person, that · **What happens:** be, obtain, order · **To what, where:** power, body

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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 (person, that), 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:pg75000:17:48
# text = He, however, is unable to obtain any power over the body of a human being unless that being directly disobeys his orders.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
18	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
21	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	disobeys	disobey	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | person |  |  |  |  | however, unable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **obtain** | to-infinitive | person *not said here* | any power |  | the body |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset power=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | gerund | that |  |  |  |  | person's orders *obj*; directly, disobey *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **order** |  | person |  |  |  |  |  | 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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