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title: Meanwhile the Landlord and the Lady having waited until long after d… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile the Landlord and the Lady having waited until long after dark, the Landlord was reluctantly obliged to own that he had lost his bet. Who acts: Landlord, cat. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., with it
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 128

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Meanwhile the Landlord and the Lady having waited until long after dark, the Landlord was reluctantly obliged to own that he had lost his bet.

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**Who acts:** Landlord, cat · **What happens:** wait, oblige, own, lose, bet · **To what, where:** Landlord, bet

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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 (Landlord, 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:pg75000:7:128
# text = Meanwhile the Landlord and the Lady having waited until long after dark, the Landlord was reluctantly obliged to own that he had lost his bet.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Landlord	Landlord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
8	waited	wait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	until	until	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Landlord	Landlord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	reluctantly	reluctantly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	own	own	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | gerund · perfect | the Landlord and the Lady |  |  |  | after dark |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | the Landlord |  |  |  | reluctantly *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 3 | **own** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **lose** | past · perfect | cat | cat's bet |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bet=Eventuality |
| 5 | **bet** |  | cat |  |  |  |  |  | nom bet «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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