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title: Finally, on thinking the matter over, he decided it was better to pa… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Finally, on thinking the matter over, he decided it was better to pay up the gold he had stolen, on condition of having his proper Son restored to him. Who acts: father, condition. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Two Neighbours., wit
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 64

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Finally, on thinking the matter over, he decided it was better to pay up the gold he had stolen, on condition of having his proper Son restored to him.

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**Who acts:** father, condition · **What happens:** think over, decide, be, pay up, steal, have · **To what, where:** matter, gold, proper Son, father · **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 (father, condition), 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:pg75000:5:64
# text = Finally, on thinking the matter over, he decided it was better to pay up the gold he had stolen, on condition of having his proper Son restored to him.
1	Finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	expl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	csubj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	restored	restore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **think over** *speech: other* | gerund | father *not said here* | the matter |  |  |  | over *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot matter=Theme |
| 2 | **decide** | past | father |  |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pay up** | to-infinitive |  | the gold |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Asset |
| 5 | **steal** | past · perfect | father | the gold *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | gerund | condition *not said here* | father's proper Son |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 7 | **restore** | past | condition |  | father |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |

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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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