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title: When the time came for returning to the south, the Sheep remembered… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: When the time came for returning to the south, the Sheep remembered her bargain with the Wolf, and every day as they drew farther and farther south she grew more and more downhearted. Who acts: time, Sheep, Lamb. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The S
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 14

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When the time came for returning to the south, the Sheep remembered her bargain with the Wolf, and every day as they drew farther and farther south she grew more and more downhearted.

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**Who acts:** time, Sheep, Lamb · **What happens:** come, return, remember, draw, grow, bargain · **To what, where:** bargain

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, Sheep, Lamb), 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:pg75000:11:14
# text = When the time came for returning to the south, the Sheep remembered her bargain with the Wolf, and every day as they drew farther and farther south she grew more and more downhearted.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Sheep	Sheep	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
26	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	conj	_	_
29	south	south	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
32	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	35	advmod	_	_
35	downhearted	downhearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	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 | **come** | past | the time |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | gerund | the time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the south *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to south=Result |
| 3 | **remember** | past | the Sheep | Lamb's bargain |  |  |  | with the Wolf | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent bargain=Theme |
| 4 | **draw** | past | Sheep |  |  |  | day |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **grow** | past | Lamb |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **bargain** |  | Lamb |  |  |  |  | with the Wolf | nom bargain «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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