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title: So instead of opposing him they tried to soothe and conciliate him,… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So instead of opposing him they tried to soothe and conciliate him, offering him silken scarfs and other presents as he galloped to and fro. Who acts: soldiers, Boy. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Defeated the Enemy., with its dependency tree
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Defeated the Enemy., sentence 13

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So instead of opposing him they tried to soothe and conciliate him, offering him silken scarfs and other presents as he galloped to and fro.

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**Who acts:** soldiers, Boy · **What happens:** oppose, try, soothe, conciliate, offer, gallop · **To what, where:** Boy, silken scarfs

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Defeated the Enemy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldiers, 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:pg75000:25:13
# text = So instead of opposing him they tried to soothe and conciliate him, offering him silken scarfs and other presents as he galloped to and fro.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	4	mark	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	opposing	oppose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	soothe	soothe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	conciliate	conciliate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	scarfs	scarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oppose** | gerund | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* | Boy |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **try** | past | soldiers *= soldier* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **soothe** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **conciliate** | infinitive | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* | Boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **offer** | gerund | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* | silken scarfs and other presents | Boy |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal scarf=Theme |
| 6 | **gallop** | past | Boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **fro** | infinitive | Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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