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title: [6] Known as “La” in the Tibetan tongue. — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: [6] Known as “La” in the Tibetan tongue. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Love Song., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, Love Song., sentence 16

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\[6\] Known as “La” in the Tibetan tongue.

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**What happens:** know · **To what, where:** 6

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Love Song.. 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:pg75000:27:16
# text = [6] Known as “La” in the Tibetan tongue.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Tibetan	Tibetan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as La in the Tibetan tongue | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as la=Attribute |

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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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