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title: “I have come to you a second time, Oh King, in order to see whether… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have come to you a second time, Oh King, in order to see whether I can be of any use to you. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Country of the Mice., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 25

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“I have come to you a second time, Oh King, in order to see whether I can be of any use to you.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** come, see, be · **To what, where:** King, you · **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 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 (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:pg75000:20:25
# text = “I have come to you a second time, Oh King, in order to see whether I can be of any use to you.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	17	mark	_	_
15	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	fixed	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | King | King | you |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | can | King |  | you |  |  | of any use | 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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