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title: When all the preliminaries had been satisfactorily arranged, a party… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: When all the preliminaries had been satisfactorily arranged, a party of horsemen arrived from the Bride’s house to greet the Bridegroom and to bring him home. Who acts: party. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.,
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 46

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When all the preliminaries had been satisfactorily arranged, a party of horsemen arrived from the Bride’s house to greet the Bridegroom and to bring him home.

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**Who acts:** party · **What happens:** arrange, arrive, greet, bring · **To what, where:** preliminaries, house, Bridegroom

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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 (party), 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:pg75000:7:46
# text = When all the preliminaries had been satisfactorily arranged, a party of horsemen arrived from the Bride’s house to greet the Bridegroom and to bring him home.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	preliminaries	preliminary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	satisfactorily	satisfactorily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Bride	Bride	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	greet	greet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Bridegroom	Bridegroom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	home	home	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrange** | past · perfect · passive |  | all preliminaries |  |  |  | satisfactorily *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | a party of horsemen |  |  | the Bride's house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from house=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **greet** *speech: greet* | to-infinitive | a party of horsemen *not said here* |  | the Bridegroom |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | to-infinitive | a party of horsemen *not said here* |  | Bridegroom |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=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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