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title: Now the elder of these brothers was a smart, clever man, but was of… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the elder of these brothers was a smart, clever man, but was of a very selfish, cold-hearted disposition; and the younger brother was simple and kind, but rather dull. Who acts: elder, younger brother. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 2

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Now the elder of these brothers was a smart, clever man, but was of a very selfish, cold-hearted disposition; and the younger brother was simple and kind, but rather dull.

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**Who acts:** elder, younger brother · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** smart clever man

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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 (elder, younger brother), 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:pg75000:18:2
# text = Now the elder of these brothers was a smart, clever man, but was of a very selfish, cold-hearted disposition; and the younger brother was simple and kind, but rather dull.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	selfish	selfish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	disposition	disposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the elder of this brothers | a smart clever man but a selfish hearted disposition |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the elder of this brothers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a selfish hearted disposition | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the younger brother |  |  |  |  | simple *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the younger brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | the younger brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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