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title: He was a very holy man and spent his time entirely in religious cont… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: He was a very holy man and spent his time entirely in religious contemplation, and the only person whom he allowed about his house was a certain young man of low birth, who acted as his Servant and used to cook his meals and perform other household duties. Who acts: Lama, only person, holy man. A se
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 2

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He was a very holy man and spent his time entirely in religious contemplation, and the only person whom he allowed about his house was a certain young man of low birth, who acted as his Servant and used to cook his meals and perform other household duties.

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**Who acts:** Lama, only person, holy man · **What happens:** be, spend, allow, act, use, cook · **To what, where:** holy man, religious contemplation, only person, certain young man, meals, other household duties

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lama, only person, holy man), 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:pg75000:19:2
# text = He was a very holy man and spent his time entirely in religious contemplation, and the only person whom he allowed about his house was a certain young man of low birth, who acted as his Servant and used to cook his meals and perform other household duties.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	contemplation	contemplation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	acted	act	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	Servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	perform	perform	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
48	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | Lama | a holy man and a certain young man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spend** | past | Lama *not said here* |  |  | religious contemplation | time | entirely *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **allow** | past | Lama |  | the only person |  |  | about Lama's house | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the only person | a certain young man |  |  |  | of low birth | tree rules |
| 5 | **act** | past | a holy man and a certain young man |  |  |  |  | as Lama's Servant | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as servant=Attribute |
| 6 | **use** | past | a holy man and a certain young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **cook** | to-infinitive | a holy man and a certain young man *not said here* | Lama's meals |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meal=Patient |
| 8 | **perform** | present | a holy man and a certain young man *not said here* | other household duties |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=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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