--- title: “Well, Your Majesty, your Servant said that if I would carry this ja… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: “Well, Your Majesty, your Servant said that if I would carry this jar of oil, he would give me a hen, and it seemed to me quite natural to consider within myself what I should do with my hen when I got it. Who acts: Servant, Boy, it. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Servant, Boy, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:7:36 # text = “Well, Your Majesty, your Servant said that if I would carry this jar of oil, he would give me a hen, and it seemed to me quite natural to consider within myself what I should do with my hen when I got it. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 Servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 15 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 jar jar NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 23 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 iobj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 32 quite quite ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 consider consider VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 csubj _ _ 36 within within ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 35 obl _ _ 38 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 41 obj _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 47 advmod _ _ 46 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ _ 48 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | your Servant | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **carry** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | would | your Servant *= servant* | this jar of oil | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Theme | | 3 | **give** *in a quote* | would | Boy | a hen | your Servant *= servant* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hen=Theme | | 4 | **seem** *in a quote* | past | it | | your Servant *= servant* | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **consider** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | within your Servant *= servant* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **do** *in a quote* | should | your Servant *= servant* | | | | | with my hen; what *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 7 | **get** *in a quote* | past | your Servant *= servant* | jar | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/37/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/)