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title: “I am Lomden, the Hare,” that animal replied, “and I have been deput… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am Lomden, the Hare,” that animal replied, “and I have been deputed to India on a special mission by the Emperor of China. Who acts: Lomden. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., with its dependency tree and 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 34

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“I am Lomden, the Hare,” that animal replied, “and I have been deputed to India on a special mission by the Emperor of China.

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**Who acts:** Lomden · **What happens:** be, reply, depute · **To what, where:** Lomden, that, India, special mission · **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 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 (Lomden), 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:pg75000:11:34
# text = “I am Lomden, the Hare,” that animal replied, “and I have been deputed to India on a special mission by the Emperor of China.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Lomden	Lomden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
11	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	deputed	depute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	mission	mission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Lomden | Lomden |  |  |  | the Hare *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Lomden | that |  |  |  | animal *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 3 | **depute** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | Lomden | India | a special mission by the Emperor of China |  |  | 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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