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title: The dishonest Neighbour had no reply to make. — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The dishonest Neighbour had no reply to make. Who acts: dishonest Neighbour. 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 43

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The dishonest Neighbour had no reply to make.

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**Who acts:** dishonest Neighbour · **What happens:** have, make · **To what, where:** reply

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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 (dishonest Neighbour), 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:pg75000:5:43
# text = The dishonest Neighbour had no reply to make.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dishonest	dishonest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Neighbour	Neighbour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the dishonest Neighbour | no reply |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | the dishonest Neighbour *not said here* | no reply *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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