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title: This boy is not an ordinary human child, but is the incarnation of a… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: This boy is not an ordinary human child, but is the incarnation of a very holy Lama, with miraculous qualities, and he will from his birth be able to walk and talk. Who acts: boy. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., wit
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 36

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This boy is not an ordinary human child, but is the incarnation of a very holy Lama, with miraculous qualities, and he will from his birth be able to walk and talk.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** not be, be, walk, talk · **To what, where:** ordinary human child, incarnation, birth

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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 (boy), 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:pg75000:22:36
# text = This boy is not an ordinary human child, but is the incarnation of a very holy Lama, with miraculous qualities, and he will from his birth be able to walk and talk.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	incarnation	incarnation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Lama	Lama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	miraculous	miraculous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	qualities	quality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
31	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | this boy | a ordinary human child but the incarnation and miraculous qualities |  |  |  | miraculous qualities *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | this boy *not said here* | the incarnation |  |  |  | of a holy Lama | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | future | boy |  |  | boy's birth |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **walk** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **talk** | infinitive | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «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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