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title: “Ah!” cried he, “the missing turquoise must be somewhere near here.” — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ah!” cried he, “the missing turquoise must be somewhere near here.” Who acts: missing turquoise. 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 60

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“Ah!” cried he, “the missing turquoise must be somewhere near here.”

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**Who acts:** missing turquoise · **What happens:** cry, be · **To what, where:** Boy · **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 (missing turquoise), 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:pg75000:23:60
# text = “Ah!” cried he, “the missing turquoise must be somewhere near here.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	turquoise	turquoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
14	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
15	near	near	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | Boy |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | must | the missing turquoise |  |  |  |  | here, near *property* | 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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