--- title: Accordingly, they parted in different directions, and the following… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: Accordingly, they parted in different directions, and the following day at noon, they met together in the courtyard of the palace, and each one proceeded to relate his adventures during the preceding twenty-four hours. Who acts: Thieves, one, line. 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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 (Thieves, one, line), 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:pg75000:15:18 # text = Accordingly, they parted in different directions, and the following day at noon, they met together in the courtyard of the palace, and each one proceeded to relate his adventures during the preceding twenty-four hours. 1 Accordingly accordingly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 parted part VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 directions direction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 amod _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 noon noon NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 together together ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 courtyard courtyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 proceeded proceed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 relate relate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 adventures adventure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 during during ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 36 preceding precede VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 nsubj _ _ 37 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **part** | past | Thieves *= thief* | | | different directions | day | accordingly *property* | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **meet** | past | Thieves *= thief* | | | the courtyard of the palace | | together *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **proceed** | past | each one | | | | | | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **relate** | to-infinitive | each one *not said here* | line's adventures | | | hour | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme | | 6 | **precede** | gerund | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **adventure** | | line | | | | | | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/15/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/15/19/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Three Thieves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/15/)