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title: They have consulted all of the most famous doctors and lamas in the… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: They have consulted all of the most famous doctors and lamas in the neighbourhood without, however, affording her any relief at all. 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 pragmatics of every cl
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 7

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They have consulted all of the most famous doctors and lamas in the neighbourhood without, however, affording her any relief at all.

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**What happens:** consult, afford · **To what, where:** Ravens, mistress

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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: 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:pg75000:24:7
# text = They have consulted all of the most famous doctors and lamas in the neighbourhood without, however, affording her any relief at all.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	consulted	consult	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	lamas	lama	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
15	without	without	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	however	however	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	affording	afford	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consult** | present · perfect · passive |  | Ravens *= raven* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme all=Attribute |
| 2 | **afford** | gerund |  | mistress |  |  |  | any relief *obj*; however *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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