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title: So Master Rin-dzin, with his few belongings on his back, marched off… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So Master Rin-dzin, with his few belongings on his back, marched off into the world to try and make his fortune. Who acts: Master. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 26

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So Master Rin-dzin, with his few belongings on his back, marched off into the world to try and make his fortune.

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**Who acts:** Master · **What happens:** march off, try, make · **To what, where:** world, fortune

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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 (Master), 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:pg75000:19:26
# text = So Master Rin-dzin, with his few belongings on his back, marched off into the world to try and make his fortune.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
2	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	Rin	Rin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	dzin	dzin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	belongings	belonging	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	marched	march	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **march off** | past | Master |  |  |  |  | into the world *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into world=Result |
| 2 | **try** | to-infinitive | Master *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | Master *not said here* | Lama's fortune |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fortune=Product |

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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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