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title: [11] There is a play on the words of the Tibetan original here which… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: [11] There is a play on the words of the Tibetan original here which explains this point, but which is incapable of adequate translation into English. Who acts: play, Tibetan original. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Love Song., with its dependency t
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# Folk tales from Tibet, Love Song., sentence 23

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\[11\] There is a play on the words of the Tibetan original here which explains this point, but which is incapable of adequate translation into English.

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**Who acts:** play, Tibetan original · **What happens:** be, explain, word · **To what, where:** 11, English, point, incapable, Tibetan original

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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: who acts (play, Tibetan original), 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:pg75000:27:23
# text = [11] There is a play on the words of the Tibetan original here which explains this point, but which is incapable of adequate translation into English.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Tibetan	Tibetan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	explains	explain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	incapable	incapable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	adequate	adequate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | a play on the words of the Tibetan original but incapable | 11 |  | English; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | the Tibetan original | this point |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a play on the words of the Tibetan original but incapable | incapable |  |  |  | of adequate translation | tree rules |
| 4 | **word** |  |  | the Tibetan original |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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