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title: The Landlord received him very hospitably, and made him quite comfor… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The Landlord received him very hospitably, and made him quite comfortable, and during the conversation which followed their evening meal the Master of the house began telling some very tall stories. Who acts: Landlord, conversation, evening meal. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Fred
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 95

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The Landlord received him very hospitably, and made him quite comfortable, and during the conversation which followed their evening meal the Master of the house began telling some very tall stories.

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**Who acts:** Landlord, conversation, evening meal · **What happens:** receive, make, follow, begin, tell · **To what, where:** Boy, tall stories · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, conversation, evening meal), 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:pg75000:7:95
# text = The Landlord received him very hospitably, and made him quite comfortable, and during the conversation which followed their evening meal the Master of the house began telling some very tall stories.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Landlord	Landlord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hospitably	hospitably	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
15	during	during	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
29	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	xcomp	_	_
30	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
31	very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | the Landlord | Boy |  |  |  | hospitably *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past |  | Boy |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
| 3 | **follow** | past | the conversation |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **begin** | past | goods's evening meal |  |  |  | during the conversation |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | goods's evening meal *not said here* | some tall stories |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |

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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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