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title: This other country was far more wealthy and powerful than the countr… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: This other country was far more wealthy and powerful than the country where the Mice lived, and its King soon assembled a huge army on the opposite bank of the river and began making preparations for invasion. Who acts: other country, Mice, King. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Fred
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 22

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This other country was far more wealthy and powerful than the country where the Mice lived, and its King soon assembled a huge army on the opposite bank of the river and began making preparations for invasion.

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**Who acts:** other country, Mice, King · **What happens:** be, live, assemble, begin, make · **To what, where:** huge army, opposite bank, preparations

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Country of the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other country, Mice, King), 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:pg75000:20:22
# text = This other country was far more wealthy and powerful than the country where the Mice lived, and its King soon assembled a huge army on the opposite bank of the river and began making preparations for invasion.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
35	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	xcomp	_	_
36	preparations	preparation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this other country |  |  |  |  | far, wealthy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | this other country *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than the country | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | past | the Mice |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **assemble** | past | country's King | a huge army |  | the opposite bank of the river |  | soon *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent army=Theme |
| 5 | **begin** | past | country's King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **make** | gerund | country's King *not said here* | preparations |  |  |  | for invasion | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent preparation=Product for invasion=Asset |

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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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