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title: As soon as you are ready I will go to the young lady of the house an… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as you are ready I will go to the young lady of the house and inform her that I am her brother, who has returned home after many years’ wandering. Who acts: you, I, brother, many years. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 39

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As soon as you are ready I will go to the young lady of the house and inform her that I am her brother, who has returned home after many years’ wandering.

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**Who acts:** you, I, brother, many years · **What happens:** be, go, inform, return, ', wonder · **To what, where:** body, brother · **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 (you, I, brother, many years), 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:pg75000:19:39
# text = As soon as you are ready I will go to the young lady of the house and inform her that I am her brother, who has returned home after many years’ wandering.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	inform	inform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
29	home	home	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
34	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | future | I |  |  |  |  | to the young lady of the house; soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lady=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **inform** *speech: other* | infinitive | I *not said here* |  | body |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | I | body's brother |  |  |  | body *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 5 | **return** | present · perfect | body's brother |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **'** | present | many years |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | many years *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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