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title: He carried over with him a jug of beer, and, on the pretence of conv… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: He carried over with him a jug of beer, and, on the pretence of conviviality, he offered his Neighbour a drink, and during the course of the conversation which followed he asked Cham-ba to tell him the secret of his new wealth. Who acts: change, pretence, conversation. A sentence of «Folk tales from
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 19

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He carried over with him a jug of beer, and, on the pretence of conviviality, he offered his Neighbour a drink, and during the course of the conversation which followed he asked Cham-ba to tell him the secret of his new wealth.

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**Who acts:** change, pretence, conversation · **What happens:** carry over, offer, follow, ask, tell · **To what, where:** jug, drink, Neighbour, Cham ba, secret, change · **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 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 (change, pretence, conversation), 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:pg75000:5:19
# text = He carried over with him a jug of beer, and, on the pretence of conviviality, he offered his Neighbour a drink, and during the course of the conversation which followed he asked Cham-ba to tell him the secret of his new wealth.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	jug	jug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pretence	pretence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	conviviality	conviviality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	Neighbour	Neighbour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
27	during	during	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
37	Cham	Cham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	ba	ba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	ccomp	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	iobj	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
47	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry over** | past | change | a jug of beer |  |  |  | with ear; over *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jug=Theme |
| 2 | **offer** | past | the pretence of conviviality | a drink | change's Neighbour |  |  | change *nsubj* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Goal drink=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | past | the conversation |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | change | Cham ba |  |  | during the course of the conversation |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent ba=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the secret of change's new wealth | change |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient secret=Topic |

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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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