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title: In my search I shall be assisted by this enchanted pig’s head which… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: In my search I shall be assisted by this enchanted pig’s head which I hold under my arm. Who acts: head, my. 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 clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 50

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In my search I shall be assisted by this enchanted pig’s head which I hold under my arm.

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**Who acts:** head, my · **What happens:** assist, enchant, hold, search · **To what, where:** I, search, arm

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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 (head, my), 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:pg75000:23:50
# text = In my search I shall be assisted by this enchanted pig’s head which I hold under my arm.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	assisted	assist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assist** | shall · passive | this enchanted pig's head | I |  | my search |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **hold** | present | this enchanted pig's head |  |  | my arm |  | I *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under arm=Location |
| 4 | **search** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: 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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