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title: Here the proud brother and his wife settled down in very humble circ… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Here the proud brother and his wife settled down in very humble circumstances, whilst the younger son lived for many years very happily with his mother and prospered exceedingly in all he undertook. Who acts: proud brother, younger son, Lion. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederic
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 66

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Here the proud brother and his wife settled down in very humble circumstances, whilst the younger son lived for many years very happily with his mother and prospered exceedingly in all he undertook.

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**Who acts:** proud brother, younger son, Lion · **What happens:** settle down, live, prosper, undertake · **To what, where:** humble circumstances, all

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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 (proud brother, younger son, Lion), 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:pg75000:18:66
# text = Here the proud brother and his wife settled down in very humble circumstances, whilst the younger son lived for many years very happily with his mother and prospered exceedingly in all he undertook.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	settled	settle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	prospered	prosper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
30	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	obl	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	undertook	undertake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **settle down** | past | the proud brother and Lion's wife |  |  | humble circumstances; here |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **live** | past | the younger son |  |  |  | year | with Lion's mother; happily *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with mother=Location |
| 3 | **prosper** | past | the proud brother and Lion's wife *not said here* |  |  | all |  | exceedingly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in all=Location |
| 4 | **undertake** | past | Lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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