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title: Do you climb in through the window into the room where the old man’s… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Do you climb in through the window into the room where the old man’s body lies awaiting burial, and conceal yourself somewhere. Who acts: you, body. 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 pr
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 38

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Do you climb in through the window into the room where the old man’s body lies awaiting burial, and conceal yourself somewhere.

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**Who acts:** you, body · **What happens:** climb, lie, await, conceal · **To what, where:** window, burial, yourself

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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 (you, body), 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:pg75000:19:38
# text = Do you climb in through the window into the room where the old man’s body lies awaiting burial, and conceal yourself somewhere.
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
18	awaiting	await	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	conceal	conceal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
23	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	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 | **climb** | present · do-support | you |  |  | the window |  | into the room | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through window=Initial\_Location into room=Destination |
| 2 | **lie** | present | the old man's body |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **await** | gerund | the old man's body *not said here* | burial |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **conceal** | infinitive | you *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  | somewhere *property* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=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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