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title: As luscious fruit well ripened, Hangs tempting on the tree; So is th… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: As luscious fruit well ripened, Hangs tempting on the tree; So is thy beauty, maiden, Temptation sore to me. Who acts: Hangs, beauty. 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 4

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As luscious fruit well ripened, Hangs tempting on the tree; So is thy beauty, maiden, Temptation sore to me.

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**Who acts:** Hangs, beauty · **What happens:** ripen, tempt, be · **To what, where:** Hangs, tree

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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 (Hangs, beauty), 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:pg75000:27:4
# text = As luscious fruit well ripened, Hangs tempting on the tree; So is thy beauty, maiden, Temptation sore to me.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	luscious	luscious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	ripened	ripen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Hangs	hang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	tempting	tempt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	So	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Temptation	temptation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ripen** | participle |  | Hangs |  |  |  | as luscious fruit; well *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hang=Patient |
| 2 | **tempt** | gerund | Hangs *not said here* |  |  | the tree |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | thy beauty |  |  |  |  | Temptation *conj*; maiden *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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