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title: They soon came to some rough, rocky ground, and here the Goat missed… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: They soon came to some rough, rocky ground, and here the Goat missed his footing and fell into a deep, narrow cleft between two rocks, breaking his leg; and the Wolf, who had not seen what had happened, jumped over the crevice and pursued his way, still hunting for the Goat. Who acts: hills, Goat, W
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 35

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They soon came to some rough, rocky ground, and here the Goat missed his footing and fell into a deep, narrow cleft between two rocks, breaking his leg; and the Wolf, who had not seen what had happened, jumped over the crevice and pursued his way, still hunting for the Goat.

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**Who acts:** hills, Goat, Wolf · **What happens:** come, miss, fall, break, not see, happen · **To what, where:** rough rocky ground, footing, deep narrow cleft, leg, crevice, way

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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 (hills, Goat, Wolf), 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:pg75000:12:35
# text = They soon came to some rough, rocky ground, and here the Goat missed his footing and fell into a deep, narrow cleft between two rocks, breaking his leg; and the Wolf, who had not seen what had happened, jumped over the crevice and pursued his way, still hunting for the Goat.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
6	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	footing	footing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	cleft	cleft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	between	between	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	acl:relcl	_	_
42	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	44	nsubj	_	_
43	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
46	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
47	over	over	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	crevice	crevice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	still	still	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	51	advcl	_	_
57	for	for	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | hills *= hill* |  |  | rough rocky ground |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ground=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **miss** | past | the Goat | Goat's footing |  | here |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer footing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fall** | past | the Goat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into a deep narrow cleft between two rocks *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into cleft=Result |
| 4 | **break** | gerund | the Goat *not said here* | Goat's leg |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | the Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **jump** | past | the Wolf |  |  | the crevice |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over crevice=Trajectory |
| 8 | **pursue** | past | the Wolf *not said here* | Goat's way |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 9 | **hunt** | gerund | the Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  | still | for the Goat | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for goat=Theme |

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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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