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title: He never again returned to his den, which was occupied henceforth by… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: He never again returned to his den, which was occupied henceforth by the Jackals, who lived there for many years in peace and comfort. Who acts: Tiger, den, Jackals. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Jackals and the Tiger., with its dependency tree
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 40

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He never again returned to his den, which was occupied henceforth by the Jackals, who lived there for many years in peace and comfort.

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**Who acts:** Tiger, den, Jackals · **What happens:** not return, be, live

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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 (Tiger, den, Jackals), 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:pg75000:14:40
# text = He never again returned to his den, which was occupied henceforth by the Jackals, who lived there for many years in peace and comfort.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	occupied	occupied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Jackals	Jackal	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **return** | participle | Tiger |  |  |  | again | to Tiger's den *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to den=Result |
| 2 | **is** | past | Tiger's den |  |  |  |  | by the Jackals; henceforth, occupied *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | past | the Jackals |  |  | there | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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