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title: So next day the King summoned a council, composed of all his wisest… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So next day the King summoned a council, composed of all his wisest ministers and men of science. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 13

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So next day the King summoned a council, composed of all his wisest ministers and men of science.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** summon, compose · **To what, where:** council

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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:pg75000:22:13
# text = So next day the King summoned a council, composed of all his wisest ministers and men of science.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wisest	wise	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	ministers	minister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **summon** | past | the King | a council |  |  | day |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Recipient |
| 2 | **compose** | participle |  | a council *not said here* |  |  |  | of council's wisest ministers and men of science | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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