--- title: The elder brother and his wife, as they returned home together that… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: The elder brother and his wife, as they returned home together that evening, talked the matter over between them, and decided that so good an opportunity of making money so easily was not to be lost. Who acts: brothers, elder brother, good opportunity. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, elder brother, good opportunity), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:18:36 # text = The elder brother and his wife, as they returned home together that evening, talked the matter over between them, and decided that so good an opportunity of making money so easily was not to be lost. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 elder elder ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 11 home home ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 together together ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 13 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 16 talked talk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 over over ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 20 between between ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 decided decide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 25 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 obj _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 opportunity opportunity NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 of of SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 acl _ _ 32 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 easily easily ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | past | brothers *= brother* | the elder brother and news's wife *not said here* | | | evening | home, together *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | | 2 | **talk over** | past | the elder brother and news's wife | the matter | | | | between pieces *= piece*; over *property* | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent matter=Patient | | 3 | **decide** | past | the elder brother and news's wife *not said here* | that | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent that=Co-Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **make** | gerund | a good opportunity *not said here* | money | | | | easily *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=Product | | 5 | **not** **lose** *not said to happen* | past · passive | | a good opportunity | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/18/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/18/37/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Stone Lion.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/18/)