--- title: After living for some time very comfortably near a large village, th… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: After living for some time very comfortably near a large village, they found that the dogs of the village were becoming so numerous and so troublesome that they considered it necessary to change their place of abode. Who acts: Jackals, dogs. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jackals, dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:14:2 # text = After living for some time very comfortably near a large village, they found that the dogs of the village were becoming so numerous and so troublesome that they considered it necessary to change their place of abode. 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 5 det _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 comfortably comfortably ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 8 near near ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 becoming become VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 ccomp _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 numerous numerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 troublesome troublesome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 considered consider VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 necessary necessary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 abode abode NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | gerund | Jackals *= jackal* *not said here* | | | a large village | time | comfortably *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near village=Location | | 2 | **find** | past | Jackals *= jackal* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **become** | past · progressive | the dogs of the village | | | | | numerous *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **consider** | past | Jackals *= jackal* | village | | | | necessary *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute | | 5 | **change** | to-infinitive | Jackals *= jackal* *not said here* | Jackals's place of abode | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/14/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/14/3/) - ↑ back to [The Jackals and the Tiger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/14/)