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title: “This is the skin of Pen-dzong the Goat, whom I found lying in a cle… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “This is the skin of Pen-dzong the Goat, whom I found lying in a cleft between two rocks with a broken leg. Who acts: This, Fox, Goat. 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 its dependency tree and th
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 52

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“This is the skin of Pen-dzong the Goat, whom I found lying in a cleft between two rocks with a broken leg.

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**Who acts:** This, Fox, Goat · **What happens:** be, find, lie, break · **To what, where:** skin, Goat, cleft

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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 (This, Fox, Goat), 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:pg75000:12:52
# text = “This is the skin of Pen-dzong the Goat, whom I found lying in a cleft between two rocks with a broken leg.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Pen	Penn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	dzong	dzong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cleft	cleft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	between	between	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | This | the skin |  |  |  | of Pen dzong | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** *in a quote* | past | the Fox *= fox* | the Goat |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent whom=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** *in a quote* | gerund | the Goat *not said here* |  |  | a cleft |  | between two rocks; with a broken leg | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cleft=Location |
| 4 | **break** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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