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title: “I have sold everything in the house, and have now no money to buy a… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have sold everything in the house, and have now no money to buy any food. Who acts: wife. 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 59

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“I have sold everything in the house, and have now no money to buy any food.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** sell, have, buy · **To what, where:** everything, house, money, food

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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 (wife), 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:pg75000:18:59
# text = “I have sold everything in the house, and have now no money to buy any food.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** *in a quote* | present · perfect | wife | everything |  | the house |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | wife *not said here* | no money |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 3 | **buy** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | any food |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |

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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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