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title: “Certainly, Madam,” replied the old man; “you are welcome to all I h… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Certainly, Madam,” replied the old man; “you are welcome to all I have,” and so saying, he handed over to her the whole of his provisions. Who acts: Madam, you, man. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., with its depende
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 32

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“Certainly, Madam,” replied the old man; “you are welcome to all I have,” and so saying, he handed over to her the whole of his provisions.

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**Who acts:** Madam, you, man · **What happens:** reply, be, have, say, hand over, provide · **To what, where:** old man, whole, Madam · **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 (Madam, you, man), 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:pg75000:22:32
# text = “Certainly, Madam,” replied the old man; “you are welcome to all I have,” and so saying, he handed over to her the whole of his provisions.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Madam	Madam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	obl	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Madam | the old man |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | to all; welcome *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Madam |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hand over** | past | man | the whole of man's provisions | Madam |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to she=Destination |
| 6 | **provide** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom provision «communication intransitive»: 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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