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title: [This story is really the continuation of Number X., which is someti… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: [This story is really the continuation of Number X., which is sometimes told of “the Sheep and the Goat,” instead of “the Sheep and the Lamb.” Who acts: story. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., with i
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 1

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\[This story is really the continuation of Number X., which is sometimes told of “the Sheep and the Goat,” instead of “the Sheep and the Lamb.”

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** be, tell · **To what, where:** continuation · **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 How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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:pg75000:12:1
# text = [This story is really the continuation of Number X., which is sometimes told of “the Sheep and the Goat,” instead of “the Sheep and the Lamb.”
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	continuation	continuation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	X	x	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
16	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
26	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	30	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Lamb	Lamb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this story | the continuation |  |  |  | of Number X | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | the continuation |  |  |  | of the Sheep and the Goat; instead the Sheep and the Lamb; sometimes *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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