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title: They purchased a large farm-house in the neighbourhood, and a large… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: They purchased a large farm-house in the neighbourhood, and a large stock of cattle and sheep, and settled down in their new abode, and henceforward they began to live in a very comfortable and prosperous manner. Who acts: widow. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Si
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 31

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They purchased a large farm-house in the neighbourhood, and a large stock of cattle and sheep, and settled down in their new abode, and henceforward they began to live in a very comfortable and prosperous manner.

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**Who acts:** widow · **What happens:** purchase, settle down, begin, live, stock · **To what, where:** large farm house, neighbourhood, new abode, comfortable manner, cattle

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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 (widow), 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:pg75000:18:31
# text = They purchased a large farm-house in the neighbourhood, and a large stock of cattle and sheep, and settled down in their new abode, and henceforward they began to live in a very comfortable and prosperous manner.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	purchased	purchase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	abode	abode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	henceforward	henceforward	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
37	very	very	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	_
41	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **purchase** | past | widow | a large farm house |  | the neighbourhood |  | a large stock of cattle and sheep *parataxis* | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Theme |
| 2 | **settle down** | past | widow *not said here* |  |  | widow's new abode |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **begin** | past | widow |  |  |  |  | henceforward *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **live** | to-infinitive | widow *not said here* |  |  | a comfortable manner |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Location |
| 5 | **stock** |  |  | cattle and sheep |  |  |  |  | nom stock «possession 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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