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title: “You were then heavily in my debt, and I have come back here with al… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “You were then heavily in my debt, and I have come back here with all the necessary documents to claim what you owed me.” Who acts: You, Apparition. 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 pr
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 34

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“You were then heavily in my debt, and I have come back here with all the necessary documents to claim what you owed me.”

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**Who acts:** You, Apparition · **What happens:** be, come back, claim, owe · **To what, where:** debt, Apparition

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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 (You, Apparition), 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:pg75000:5:34
# text = “You were then heavily in my debt, and I have come back here with all the necessary documents to claim what you owed me.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	documents	document	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	claim	claim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	owed	owe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	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 | You |  |  | my debt | then | my *nmod:poss*; heavily *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come back** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Apparition *= apparition* |  |  | here |  | with all necessary documents | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **claim** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Apparition *= apparition* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 4 | **owe** *in a quote* | past | you |  | the Apparition *= apparition* |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=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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