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title: “That,” replied Father Raven, “is a foolish home-bred Boy who has no… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “That,” replied Father Raven, “is a foolish home-bred Boy who has no experience of the world. Who acts: That, foolish bred Boy. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 20

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“That,” replied Father Raven, “is a foolish home-bred Boy who has no experience of the world.

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**Who acts:** That, foolish bred Boy · **What happens:** reply, breed, be, have, experience · **To what, where:** Father, foolish bred Boy, experience, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, foolish bred 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:pg75000:23:20
# text = “That,” replied Father Raven, “is a foolish home-bred Boy who has no experience of the world.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	Raven	Raven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
12	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	bred	breed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | That | Father and a foolish bred Boy |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent father=Topic |
| 2 | **breed** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | home *compound* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That *not said here* | a foolish bred Boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | a foolish bred Boy | no experience of the world |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent experience=Patient |
| 5 | **experience** *in a quote* |  |  | the world |  |  |  |  | nom experience «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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