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title: After living for some years very happily with his Bride, he thought… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: After living for some years very happily with his Bride, he thought that he would like to make a little money for himself by trading, so having procured a good stock of merchandise he set off for India, in the hope of making a good profit on his goods. Who acts: Boy, good stock, hope. A sentence of 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 93

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After living for some years very happily with his Bride, he thought that he would like to make a little money for himself by trading, so having procured a good stock of merchandise he set off for India, in the hope of making a good profit on his goods.

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**Who acts:** Boy, good stock, hope · **What happens:** live, think, like, make, procure, set off · **To what, where:** little money, hope, good profit, goods, merchandise

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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 (Boy, good stock, hope), 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:pg75000:7:93
# text = After living for some years very happily with his Bride, he thought that he would like to make a little money for himself by trading, so having procured a good stock of merchandise he set off for India, in the hope of making a good profit on his goods.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	trading	trading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	aux	_	_
30	procured	procure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
38	off	off	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
45	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
46	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	44	acl	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
50	on	on	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund | Boy *not said here* |  |  |  | year | with Boy's Bride; happily *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with bride=Location |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **like** | would | Boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Boy *not said here* | a little money |  |  |  | for Boy; by trading | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent money=Product for himself=Asset |
| 5 | **procure** | gerund · perfect | Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **set off** | past | a good stock of merchandise |  |  | the hope |  | for India; Boy *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **make** | gerund | the hope *not said here* | a good profit |  | Boy's goods |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset profit=Product |
| 8 | **stock** |  |  | merchandise |  |  |  |  | nom stock «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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