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title: The Thief went forward alone to make enquiries, and he soon returned… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The Thief went forward alone to make enquiries, and he soon returned to Rin-dzin with the information he had gathered. Who acts: Thief. 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 e
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 33

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The Thief went forward alone to make enquiries, and he soon returned to Rin-dzin with the information he had gathered.

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**Who acts:** Thief · **What happens:** go, make, return, gather · **To what, where:** enquiries, information

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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 (Thief), 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:pg75000:19:33
# text = The Thief went forward alone to make enquiries, and he soon returned to Rin-dzin with the information he had gathered.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	enquiries	enquiry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Rin	Rin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	dzin	dzin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **go** | past | the Thief |  |  |  |  | alone, forward *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | the Thief *not said here* | enquiries |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset enquiry=Product |
| 3 | **return** | past | thief |  |  |  |  | to Rin dzin with the information *result*; soon *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to dzin=Result |
| 4 | **gather** | past · perfect | thief | the information *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent information=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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