🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 2

He was a very holy man and spent his time entirely in religious contemplation, and the only person whom he allowed about his house was a certain young man of low birth, who acted as his Servant and used to cook his meals and perform other household duties.

Who acts: Lama, only person, holy man · What happens: be, spend, allow, act, use, cook · To what, where: holy man, religious contemplation, only person, certain young man, meals, other household duties

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lama, only person, holy man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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