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title: Each one began to accuse the other of theft and treachery, and befor… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Each one began to accuse the other of theft and treachery, and before many minutes had passed the whole camp was in a state of wild confusion, comrade quarrelling with comrade, or accusing their officers of dishonesty and ill-faith. Who acts: one, whole camp. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 54

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Each one began to accuse the other of theft and treachery, and before many minutes had passed the whole camp was in a state of wild confusion, comrade quarrelling with comrade, or accusing their officers of dishonesty and ill-faith.

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**Who acts:** one, whole camp · **What happens:** begin, accuse, pass, be · **To what, where:** other, state, officers

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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 (one, whole camp), 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:pg75000:20:54
# text = Each one began to accuse the other of theft and treachery, and before many minutes had passed the whole camp was in a state of wild confusion, comrade quarrelling with comrade, or accusing their officers of dishonesty and ill-faith.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	accuse	accuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	theft	theft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	treachery	treachery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	acl:relcl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	quarrelling	quarrelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	accusing	accuse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	dishonesty	dishonesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | each one |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **accuse** | to-infinitive | each one *not said here* | the other of theft and treachery |  |  |  |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent other=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | past · perfect | each one *not said here* |  |  |  | minute |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the whole camp |  |  | a state |  | of wild confusion; comrade quarrelling with comrade *nmod* | tree rules |
| 5 | **accuse** | gerund | each one *not said here* | confusion's officers of dishonesty and ill faith |  |  |  |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent officer=Theme |

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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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