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title: Calling the young lady to him, he commanded her to bring his dinner,… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Calling the young lady to him, he commanded her to bring his dinner, and after making a sumptuous repast he sat down on some cushions and began playing the guitar. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., w
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 58

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Calling the young lady to him, he commanded her to bring his dinner, and after making a sumptuous repast he sat down on some cushions and began playing the guitar.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** call, command, bring, make, sit down, begin · **To what, where:** young lady, Prince, Ogre, dinner, sumptuous repast, cushions · **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 (Prince), 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:pg75000:22:58
# text = Calling the young lady to him, he commanded her to bring his dinner, and after making a sumptuous repast he sat down on some cushions and began playing the guitar.
1	Calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sumptuous	sumptuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	repast	repast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	xcomp	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	guitar	guitar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **call** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | the young lady | Prince |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent lady=Topic to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **command** | past | Prince | Ogre |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | Prince's dinner |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | a sumptuous repast |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset repast=Product |
| 5 | **sit down** | past | Prince |  |  | some cushions |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on cushion=Location |
| 6 | **begin** | past | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **play** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | the guitar |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guitar=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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