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title: I will certainly make him some offering to-morrow.” — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: I will certainly make him some offering to-morrow.” Who acts: I, some. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Stone Lion., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 17

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I will certainly make him some offering to-morrow.”

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**Who acts:** I, some · **What happens:** make, offer · **To what, where:** boy, morrow

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Stone Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, some), 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:pg75000:18:17
# text = I will certainly make him some offering to-morrow.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
7	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | future | I | boy |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product |
| 2 | **offer** | gerund | some |  |  |  |  | to morrow *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to morrow=Goal |

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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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