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title: When they have rested and refreshed themselves enough, they proceed… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: When they have rested and refreshed themselves enough, they proceed on their way, and not only do they not thank me for my hospitality, but they break off my tender branches and use them as whips, further to goad and distress their weary animals. Who acts: Travellers. A sentence of «Folk tales from 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 44

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When they have rested and refreshed themselves enough, they proceed on their way, and not only do they not thank me for my hospitality, but they break off my tender branches and use them as whips, further to goad and distress their weary animals.

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**Who acts:** Travellers · **What happens:** rest, refresh, proceed, not do, not thank, break off · **To what, where:** Travellers, way, me, tender branches, weary animals

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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), 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:pg75000:4:44
# text = When they have rested and refreshed themselves enough, they proceed on their way, and not only do they not thank me for my hospitality, but they break off my tender branches and use them as whips, further to goad and distress their weary animals.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	refreshed	refresh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	proceed	proceed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	whips	whip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	further	further	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	goad	goad	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	distress	distress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	conj	_	_
46	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
47	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | present · perfect · passive |  | Travellers *= traveller* |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **refresh** | past |  | Travellers *= traveller* |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer |
| 3 | **proceed** | present | Travellers *= traveller* |  |  | Travellers's way |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **do** | infinitive | Travellers *= traveller* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **thank** *speech: thank* | present | Travellers *= traveller* |  | me |  |  | for my hospitality | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Theme for hospitality=Attribute |
| 6 | **break off** | present | Travellers *= traveller* | my tender branches |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer branch=Patient |
| 7 | **use** | infinitive | Travellers *= traveller* *not said here* | Travellers *= traveller* |  |  |  | as whips | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Duration as whip=Attribute |
| 8 | **goad** | to-infinitive | Travellers *= traveller* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | further *property* | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **distress** | infinitive | Travellers *= traveller* *not said here* | Travellers's weary animals |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer |

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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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