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title: When we come into the room where the corpse lies I will address it,… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: When we come into the room where the corpse lies I will address it, and ask whether I am not the long-lost son, whereupon you must reply that I am. Who acts: we, corpse, I, you. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., with i
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 41

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When we come into the room where the corpse lies I will address it, and ask whether I am not the long-lost son, whereupon you must reply that I am.

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**Who acts:** we, corpse, I, you · **What happens:** come, lie, address, ask, lose, not be · **To what, where:** room, corpse, long lost son · **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 (we, corpse, I, you), 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:pg75000:19:41
# text = When we come into the room where the corpse lies I will address it, and ask whether I am not the long-lost son, whereupon you must reply that I am.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	address	address	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
20	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	reply	reply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	parataxis	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | we |  |  | the room |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lie** | present | the corpse |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **address** | future | I | corpse |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **is a** | present | I | the long lost son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **reply** *speech: assert* | must | you |  |  |  |  | whereupon *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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