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title: So the Hare, after again begging him to be careful of himself, prece… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Hare, after again begging him to be careful of himself, preceded him down the hill until they arrived at the edge of a square-built stone tank, which was nearly full of water. Who acts: Hare, animals, built stone tank. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 17

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So the Hare, after again begging him to be careful of himself, preceded him down the hill until they arrived at the edge of a square-built stone tank, which was nearly full of water.

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**Who acts:** Hare, animals, built stone tank · **What happens:** beg, be, proceed down, arrive, build · **To what, where:** Hare, Lion, edge · **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 Hare and the Lions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, animals, built stone tank), 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:pg75000:10:17
# text = So the Hare, after again begging him to be careful of himself, preceded him down the hill until they arrived at the edge of a square-built stone tank, which was nearly full of water.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	preceded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
28	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
31	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | the Hare *not said here* |  | Hare |  | again |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of Hare; careful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **proceed down** | past | the Hare | Lion |  |  |  | the hill *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **arrive** | past | animals *= animal* |  |  | the edge of a built stone tank |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **build** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | square *compound* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **is** | past | a built stone tank |  |  |  |  | of water; full, nearly *property* | tree rules |

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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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