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title: Travellers passing constantly up and down the road avail themselves… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Travellers passing constantly up and down the road avail themselves of this cool retreat, and they come themselves and they bring their poor beasts of burden to rest in my shadow. Who acts: Travellers, my. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 39

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Travellers passing constantly up and down the road avail themselves of this cool retreat, and they come themselves and they bring their poor beasts of burden to rest in my shadow.

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**Who acts:** Travellers, my · **What happens:** pass, avail, come, bring, rest, shadow · **To what, where:** Travellers, poor beasts, shadow

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Travellers, 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:pg75000:4:39
# text = Travellers passing constantly up and down the road avail themselves of this cool retreat, and they come themselves and they bring their poor beasts of burden to rest in my shadow.
1	Travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	avail	avail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	retreat	retreat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | gerund | Travellers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **avail** | present | Travellers | Travellers *= traveller* |  |  |  | of this cool retreat | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | present | Travellers *= traveller* | Travellers *= traveller* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | present | Travellers *= traveller* | Travellers's poor beasts of burden |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent beast=Theme |
| 5 | **rest** | to-infinitive | Travellers *= traveller* *not said here* |  |  | my shadow |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shadow=Location |
| 6 | **shadow** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «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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