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title: Next to him was sitting the Beggar who had so insulted the Boy, and… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Next to him was sitting the Beggar who had so insulted the Boy, and who had disbelieved his story. Who acts: 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 clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 56

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Next to him was sitting the Beggar who had so insulted the Boy, and who had disbelieved his story.

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**Who acts:** Boy · **What happens:** sit, insult, disbelieve · **To what, where:** Beggar, Boy, story

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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 (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:pg75000:23:56
# text = Next to him was sitting the Beggar who had so insulted the Boy, and who had disbelieved his story.
1	Next	next	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Beggar	Beggar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	insulted	insult	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	disbelieved	disbelieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **sit** | past · progressive | Boy | the Beggar |  |  |  | next *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beggar=Theme |
| 2 | **insult** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Boy |  |  |  | who *nsubj:pass* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer boy=Result |
| 3 | **disbelieve** | past · perfect |  | Boy's story |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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