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description: When Rin-dzin heard this he was very angry indeed at the Thief’s treachery, and was determined to follow and punish him. Who acts: Rin dzin, dzin. 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 prag
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 63

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When Rin-dzin heard this he was very angry indeed at the Thief’s treachery, and was determined to follow and punish him.

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**Who acts:** Rin dzin, dzin · **What happens:** hear, be, follow, punish · **To what, where:** this, treachery, dzin · **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 (Rin dzin, dzin), 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:pg75000:19:63
# text = When Rin-dzin heard this he was very angry indeed at the Thief’s treachery, and was determined to follow and punish him.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	Rin	Rin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	dzin	dzin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
11	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Thief	Thief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	treachery	treachery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Rin dzin | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | dzin |  |  | the Thief's treachery |  | angry, indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Rin dzin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | determined *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **follow** | to-infinitive | Rin dzin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **punish** | infinitive | Rin dzin *not said here* | dzin |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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