--- title: Tse-ring produced the bag and handed it over to Cham-ba without sayi… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: Tse-ring produced the bag and handed it over to Cham-ba without saying anything, and when Cham-ba opened it to see whether the gold was all right he found that it contained sand instead of gold. Who acts: Tse ring, Cham ba, gold, stranger. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tse ring, Cham ba, gold, stranger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:5:40 # text = Tse-ring produced the bag and handed it over to Cham-ba without saying anything, and when Cham-ba opened it to see whether the gold was all right he found that it contained sand instead of gold. 1 Tse Tse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 produced produce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 handed hand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 over over ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 Cham Cham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ba ba NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 without without SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 17 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 24 advmod _ _ 21 Cham Cham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ba ba NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 28 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 all all ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 ccomp _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 contained contain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 ccomp _ _ 39 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 40 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 42 case _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 40 fixed _ _ 42 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **produce** | past | Tse ring | the bag | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Result | | 2 | **hand over** | past | Tse ring *not said here* | bag | | Cham ba | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ba=Destination | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Tse ring *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | | 4 | **open** | past | Cham ba | bag | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | Cham ba *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is** | past | the gold | | | | | all, right *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **find** | past | stranger | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **contain** | past | gold | sand | | | | instead gold | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sand=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/5/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/5/41/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Two Neighbours.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/5/)