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title: You have twice made pretence to magical powers, which in reality you… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: You have twice made pretence to magical powers, which in reality you do not possess, and I am about to put you to a final test. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Dislodged the Spider., with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 43

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You have twice made pretence to magical powers, which in reality you do not possess, and I am about to put you to a final test.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** make, not possess, put · **To what, where:** You, magical powers, reality

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Dislodged the Spider.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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:pg75000:24:43
# text = You have twice made pretence to magical powers, which in reality you do not possess, and I am about to put you to a final test.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	pretence	pretence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · perfect · passive |  | You |  |  |  | to magical powers; pretence *xcomp*; twice *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **not** **possess** | present · do-support | you | magical powers |  | reality |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | present | I |  | you |  |  | to a final test | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Goal |

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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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