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title: Further, the Thief had learned that the old man had once had a son,… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Further, the Thief had learned that the old man had once had a son, who had run away from home many years before and had never been heard of again. Who acts: Thief, old man, son. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., with 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 36

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Further, the Thief had learned that the old man had once had a son, who had run away from home many years before and had never been heard of again.

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**Who acts:** Thief, old man, son · **What happens:** learn, have, run away, not hear · **To what, where:** son, home · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, old man, son), 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:pg75000:19:36
# text = Further, the Thief had learned that the old man had once had a son, who had run away from home many years before and had never been heard of again.
1	Further	further	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Thief	Thief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	advmod	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	before	before	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	again	again	ADV	RB	_	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	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 | **learn** | past · perfect | the Thief |  |  |  |  | further *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | past · perfect | the old man | a son |  |  | year | before, once *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 3 | **run away** | past · perfect | a son |  |  | home |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from home=Trajectory |
| 4 | **not** **hear** | past · perfect · passive | the Thief *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: of again=Stimulus |

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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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