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title: “Oh, King!” replied the supposed Lama, “I, you must know, am a great… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, King!” replied the supposed Lama, “I, you must know, am a great recluse, and as the result of many years of solitary meditation, I have become proficient in all the magic arts. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the O
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 7

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“Oh, King!” replied the supposed Lama, “I, you must know, am a great recluse, and as the result of many years of solitary meditation, I have become proficient in all the magic arts.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** reply, suppose, know, become, result · **To what, where:** supposed Lama, many years · **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 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 (King), 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:pg75000:17:7
# text = “Oh, King!” replied the supposed Lama, “I, you must know, am a great recluse, and as the result of many years of solitary meditation, I have become proficient in all the magic arts.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	Lama	Lama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	recluse	recluse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	meditation	meditation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
38	proficient	proficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	43	det:predet	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | King | the supposed Lama |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **suppose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | must | King |  |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **become** *in a quote* | present · perfect | King |  |  |  |  | as the result of many years of solitary meditation; proficient *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **result** *in a quote* |  |  | many years of solitary meditation |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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