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title: This mode of life, however, was not at all pleasing to the Servant,… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: This mode of life, however, was not at all pleasing to the Servant, Rin-dzin, who had a healthy appetite and greatly missed his daily dish of meat, and he was constantly trying to persuade the Lama to allow him to kill a sheep or a goat in order that he might have a satisfactory meal. Who acts: mode
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 7

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This mode of life, however, was not at all pleasing to the Servant, Rin-dzin, who had a healthy appetite and greatly missed his daily dish of meat, and he was constantly trying to persuade the Lama to allow him to kill a sheep or a goat in order that he might have a satisfactory meal.

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**Who acts:** mode, Rin dzin, Lama · **What happens:** please, have, miss, try, persuade, allow · **To what, where:** healthy appetite, daily dish, Lama, sheep, order, satisfactory meal

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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 (mode, Rin dzin, Lama), 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:pg75000:19:7
# text = This mode of life, however, was not at all pleasing to the Servant, Rin-dzin, who had a healthy appetite and greatly missed his daily dish of meat, and he was constantly trying to persuade the Lama to allow him to kill a sheep or a goat in order that he might have a satisfactory meal.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	mode	mode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pleasing	please	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	Rin	Rin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	dzin	dzin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	appetite	appetite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	persuade	persuade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	Lama	lama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	iobj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
56	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
57	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
58	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
59	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	advcl	_	_
60	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	satisfactory	satisfactory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **please** | past · progressive | this mode of life |  |  |  |  | to the Servant; Rin dzin *parataxis*; however *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **have** | past | Rin dzin | a healthy appetite |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appetite=Patient |
| 3 | **miss** | past | Rin dzin *not said here* | Lama's daily dish of meat |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dish=Stimulus |
| 4 | **try** | past · progressive | Lama |  |  |  |  | constantly *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **persuade** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Lama *not said here* | the Lama |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lama=Patient |
| 6 | **allow** | to-infinitive | Lama *not said here* |  | Lama |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **kill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Lama *not said here* | a sheep or a goat |  | order |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme |
| 8 | **have** | might | Lama | a satisfactory meal |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=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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