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title: “I was a creditor of yours in one of your former existences,” replie… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “I was a creditor of yours in one of your former existences,” replied the Apparition. Who acts: Apparition, your. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Two Neighbours., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 33

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“I was a creditor of yours in one of your former existences,” replied the Apparition.

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**Who acts:** Apparition, your · **What happens:** be, reply, exist · **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 (Apparition, your), 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:pg75000:5:33
# text = “I was a creditor of yours in one of your former existences,” replied the Apparition.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	creditor	creditor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	parataxis	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	existences	existence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
16	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Apparition	apparition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the Apparition *= apparition* |  |  |  |  | of yours; a creditor *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Apparition |  |  |  |  | in one; of your former existences | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **exist** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state intransitive»: 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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