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title: So we will join company, and it will indeed be bad luck if we cannot… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So we will join company, and it will indeed be bad luck if we cannot succeed in hitting upon something profitable before many days have passed.” Who acts: we, company. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., with its depende
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 31

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So we will join company, and it will indeed be bad luck if we cannot succeed in hitting upon something profitable before many days have passed.”

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**Who acts:** we, company · **What happens:** join, be, not succeed, hit, pass · **To what, where:** company, bad luck, many days

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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 (we, company), 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:pg75000:19:31
# text = So we will join company, and it will indeed be bad luck if we cannot succeed in hitting upon something profitable before many days have passed.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
10	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
12	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
19	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obl	_	_
23	profitable	profitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
24	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | future | we | company |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | future | company | bad luck |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **succeed** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hit** | gerund | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon something | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pass** | present · perfect · passive |  | many days |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |

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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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