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title: Food was brought to me, as much as I could eat every day, and I had… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Food was brought to me, as much as I could eat every day, and I had a special attendant who used to wash and groom me, and to see to all my wants. Who acts: I, special attendant, my. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 47

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Food was brought to me, as much as I could eat every day, and I had a special attendant who used to wash and groom me, and to see to all my wants.

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**Who acts:** I, special attendant, my · **What happens:** bring, eat, have, use, wash, groom · **To what, where:** Food, me, special attendant

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, special attendant, my), 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:pg75000:3:47
# text = Food was brought to me, as much as I could eat every day, and I had a special attendant who used to wash and groom me, and to see to all my wants.
1	Food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	attendant	attendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	groom	groom	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	36	det:predet	_	_
35	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	wants	want	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · passive |  | Food | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to i=Destination |
| 2 | **eat** | could | I |  |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | I | a special attendant |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attendant=Patient |
| 4 | **use** | past | a special attendant |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **wash** | to-infinitive | a special attendant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **groom** | infinitive | a special attendant *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 7 | **see** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to my wants | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **want** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom want «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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