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title: The unsuspecting old Lama agreed to this, and for several days the S… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The unsuspecting old Lama agreed to this, and for several days the Servant was able to eat his fill of excellent mutton. Who acts: unsuspecting old Lama, Servant. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., with its dependency t
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 22

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The unsuspecting old Lama agreed to this, and for several days the Servant was able to eat his fill of excellent mutton.

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**Who acts:** unsuspecting old Lama, Servant · **What happens:** agree, be, eat · **To what, where:** fill

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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 (unsuspecting old Lama, Servant), 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:pg75000:19:22
# text = The unsuspecting old Lama agreed to this, and for several days the Servant was able to eat his fill of excellent mutton.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	unsuspecting	unsuspecting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Lama	Lama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	fill	fill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	mutton	mutton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the unsuspecting old Lama |  |  |  |  | to this | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Servant |  |  |  | day | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the Servant *not said here* | Lama's fill of excellent mutton |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=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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