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title: “You must know,” said he, “that I am a magician, living in this prai… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “You must know,” said he, “that I am a magician, living in this prairie, and you must carefully follow the directions which I shall now give you. Who acts: 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 dependen
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 34

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“You must know,” said he, “that I am a magician, living in this prairie, and you must carefully follow the directions which I shall now give you.

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**Who acts:** You, man · **What happens:** know, say, be, live, follow, give · **To what, where:** magician, prairie, directions, you · **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 (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:pg75000:22:34
# text = “You must know,” said he, “that I am a magician, living in this prairie, and you must carefully follow the directions which I shall now give you.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	prairie	prairie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obj	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
33	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | must | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | man | a magician |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** *in a quote* | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  | this prairie |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in prairie=Location |
| 5 | **follow** *in a quote* | must | you | the directions |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme |
| 6 | **give** *in a quote* | shall | man | the directions | you |  | now |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient which=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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