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title: After running some way, he came across an old Baboon, with a great f… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: After running some way, he came across an old Baboon, with a great fringe of white hair all round his face. Who acts: animal. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Jackals and the Tiger., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 20

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After running some way, he came across an old Baboon, with a great fringe of white hair all round his face.

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**Who acts:** animal · **What happens:** run, come · **To what, where:** way, old Baboon

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Jackals and the Tiger.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animal), 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:pg75000:14:20
# text = After running some way, he came across an old Baboon, with a great fringe of white hair all round his face.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	across	across	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Baboon	Baboon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fringe	fringe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	round	round	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | gerund | animal *not said here* | some way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |
| 2 | **come** | past | animal |  |  | a old Baboon |  | with a great fringe of white hair round animal's face | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across baboon=Initial\_Location |

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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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