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title: He was very much delighted at this discovery, and having collected a… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: He was very much delighted at this discovery, and having collected all the jewels, he carried them away to a neighbouring town, where he was able to sell them for a large sum of money, and thus found himself in a condition of great comfort and prosperity. Who acts: ear. A sentence of «Folk tales fro
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 17

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He was very much delighted at this discovery, and having collected all the jewels, he carried them away to a neighbouring town, where he was able to sell them for a large sum of money, and thus found himself in a condition of great comfort and prosperity.

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**Who acts:** ear · **What happens:** be, collect, carry away, neighbour, sell, find · **To what, where:** discovery, jewels, man, neighbouring town, ear, condition

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Two Neighbours.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ear), 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:pg75000:5:17
# text = He was very much delighted at this discovery, and having collected all the jewels, he carried them away to a neighbouring town, where he was able to sell them for a large sum of money, and thus found himself in a condition of great comfort and prosperity.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	discovery	discovery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	aux	_	_
12	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
43	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	42	obj	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | ear |  |  | this discovery |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **collect** | gerund · perfect |  | all jewels |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme |
| 3 | **carry away** | past | ear | man |  | a neighbouring town |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to town=Destination |
| 4 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | ear |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **sell** | to-infinitive | ear *not said here* | man |  |  |  | for a large sum of money | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Theme for sum=Asset |
| 7 | **find** | past |  | ear |  | a condition of great comfort and prosperity |  | thus *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 8 | **sum** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **condition** |  |  | great comfort and prosperity |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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