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title: The King, who was a proud and head-strong man, was not at all please… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The King, who was a proud and head-strong man, was not at all pleased that his wife should venture to maintain her opinion against his, and gradually became very much incensed against her. Who acts: King, wife. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Sto
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 3

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The King, who was a proud and head-strong man, was not at all pleased that his wife should venture to maintain her opinion against his, and gradually became very much incensed against her.

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**Who acts:** King, wife · **What happens:** be, not be, venture, maintain, become, incense · **To what, where:** proud man, all, opinion

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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, wife), 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:pg75000:22:3
# text = The King, who was a proud and head-strong man, was not at all pleased that his wife should venture to maintain her opinion against his, and gradually became very much incensed against her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
7	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	obl	_	_
18	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	maintain	maintain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	against	against	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
34	very	very	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	much	much	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	incensed	incense	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	xcomp	_	_
37	against	against	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the King | a proud man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | the King |  |  | all |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **venture** | should | King's wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **maintain** | to-infinitive | King's wife *not said here* | wife's opinion |  |  |  | King *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme his=Attribute |
| 5 | **become** | past | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | gradually *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **incense** | participle | the King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against wife | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **opine** |  | wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=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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