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title: At length, the King said that he could not stand this argument any l… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: At length, the King said that he could not stand this argument any longer, but would submit the question for decision to his council on the following day. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., with its dep
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 11

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At length, the King said that he could not stand this argument any longer, but would submit the question for decision to his council on the following day.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** say, not stand, submit, follow · **To what, where:** length, argument, question, council · **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 Room Bacha and Baki.. 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:pg75000:22:11
# text = At length, the King said that he could not stand this argument any longer, but would submit the question for decision to his council on the following day.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	any	any	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	submit	submit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	amod	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  |  | length |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **stand** | could | King | this argument |  |  |  | long *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer argument=Stimulus |
| 3 | **submit** | would | the King *not said here* | the question | King's council |  | day | for decision | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Theme to council=Recipient |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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