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title: Sure enough, just at dusk a large white cat entered the sitting-room… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 106

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Sure enough, just at dusk a large white cat entered the sitting-room, holding a lighted lantern in its mouth, and the unfortunate young Man was obliged to hand over to his Host everything he possessed in the world; and finding himself without money or goods he decided to stay on in the house as a servant.

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**Who acts:** dusk, cat · **What happens:** enter, hold, light, oblige, hand over, possess · **To what, where:** sitting room, lighted lantern, mouth, unfortunate young Man, everything, world

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dusk, cat), 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:pg75000:7:106
# text = Sure enough, just at dusk a large white cat entered the sitting-room, holding a lighted lantern in its mouth, and the unfortunate young Man was obliged to hand over to his Host everything he possessed in the world; and finding himself without money or goods he decided to stay on in the house as a servant.
1	Sure	sure	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
2	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	sitting	sitting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	over	over	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	Host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	33	obl	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	possessed	possess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
46	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	advcl	_	_
47	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	46	obj	_	_
48	without	without	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
50	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	49	conj	_	_
52	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	acl:relcl	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	_
56	on	on	ADP	RP	_	55	compound:prt	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
60	as	as	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | dusk | the sitting room |  |  |  | a large white cat *nsubj*; sure *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | dusk *not said here* | a lighted lantern |  | lantern's mouth |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lantern=Theme in mouth=Location |
| 3 | **light** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | the unfortunate young Man |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 5 | **hand over** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | everything |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to everything=Destination |
| 6 | **possess** | past | cat |  |  | the world |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **find** | gerund | dusk *not said here* | cat |  |  |  | without money or goods | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 8 | **decide** | past | cat | money or goods *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent money=Co-Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **stay on** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | cat *not said here* |  |  | the house |  | as a servant | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |

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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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