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title: All I ask of you is that twice every day you should all file past me… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: All I ask of you is that twice every day you should all file past me in procession and each one make an obeisance as you pass me by, as a token of your gratitude to me for my kindness.” Who acts: All, you, one. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Sto
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 9

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All I ask of you is that twice every day you should all file past me in procession and each one make an obeisance as you pass me by, as a token of your gratitude to me for my kindness.”

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**Who acts:** All, you, one · **What happens:** ask, be, make, pass · **To what, where:** procession, obeisance, me

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Cat and the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All, you, one), 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:pg75000:6:9
# text = All I ask of you is that twice every day you should all file past me in procession and each one make an obeisance as you pass me by, as a token of your gratitude to me for my kindness.”
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
8	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	file	file	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
15	past	past	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	obeisance	obeisance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | All |  |  |  |  | of you; I *nsubj* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | should · present | you |  |  | procession | day | past me; all, file *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | each one | a obeisance |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset obeisance=Product |
| 4 | **pass** | present | you | me |  |  |  | by a token of your gratitude to me; for my kindness | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme by token=Destination |

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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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