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title: The unfortunate Baboon, whose tail was tightly twisted round the Tig… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The unfortunate Baboon, whose tail was tightly twisted round the Tiger’s, was unable to free himself, and was dragged and bumped hither and thither in the Tiger’s rush through the thickest and thorniest parts of the jungle. Who acts: unfortunate Baboon, Tiger. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» b
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 38

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The unfortunate Baboon, whose tail was tightly twisted round the Tiger’s, was unable to free himself, and was dragged and bumped hither and thither in the Tiger’s rush through the thickest and thorniest parts of the jungle.

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**Who acts:** unfortunate Baboon, Tiger · **What happens:** twist, be, drag, bump, rush · **To what, where:** tail, rush, thickest parts

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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 (unfortunate Baboon, Tiger), 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:pg75000:14:38
# text = The unfortunate Baboon, whose tail was tightly twisted round the Tiger’s, was unable to free himself, and was dragged and bumped hither and thither in the Tiger’s rush through the thickest and thorniest parts of the jungle.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Baboon	Baboon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	twisted	twist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	round	round	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	bumped	bump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
26	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	26	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	rush	rush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
34	through	through	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
36	thickest	thick	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	amod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	thorniest	thorny	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	36	conj	_	_
39	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **twist** | past · passive |  | tail |  |  |  | round the Tiger; tightly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme round tiger=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | past | the unfortunate Baboon |  |  |  |  | free, unable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **drag** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location» |
| 4 | **bump** | past |  |  |  | the Tiger's rush through the thickest parts of the jungle; thither |  | hither *property* | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **rush** |  | the Tiger |  |  | the thickest parts of the jungle |  |  | nom rush «act transitive»: poss=agent through=place |

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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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