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title: On this evidence I shall secure at least one-half of the property, w… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: On this evidence I shall secure at least one-half of the property, which, of course, I shall share with you. Who acts: I. 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 every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 42

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On this evidence I shall secure at least one-half of the property, which, of course, I shall share with you.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** secure, share · **To what, where:** evidence

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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 (I), 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:pg75000:19:42
# text = On this evidence I shall secure at least one-half of the property, which, of course, I shall share with you.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	secure	secure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	nmod	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	16	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	advcl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	23	advmod	_	_
19	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	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 | **secure** | shall | I |  |  | this evidence |  | which  one half of the property *advcl:relcl* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on evidence=Source |
| 2 | **share** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | with you | tree rules |

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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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