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title: So before giving a decision I propose that we all adjourn to the sce… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So before giving a decision I propose that we all adjourn to the scene of action, and there you can explain to me precisely what occurred.” Who acts: I, we, you. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith., with its dependency tree and t
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 94

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So before giving a decision I propose that we all adjourn to the scene of action, and there you can explain to me precisely what occurred.”

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**Who acts:** I, we, you · **What happens:** give, propose, adjourn, explain, occur · **To what, where:** decision, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, we, you), 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:pg75000:4:94
# text = So before giving a decision I propose that we all adjourn to the scene of action, and there you can explain to me precisely what occurred.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	decision	decision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	propose	propose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
11	adjourn	adjourn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	precisely	precisely	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	nsubj	_	_
27	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | gerund | I *not said here* | a decision |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decision=Theme |
| 2 | **propose** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **adjourn** | present | we |  |  |  |  | to the scene of action | tree rules |
| 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | can | you |  | me | there |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **occur** | past |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj*; precisely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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