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title: At the same hour as on the previous day the Drake again appeared in… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: At the same hour as on the previous day the Drake again appeared in the sky, and descending upon the lake, acted in precisely the same manner as before. Who acts: Drake. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., wi
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 10

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At the same hour as on the previous day the Drake again appeared in the sky, and descending upon the lake, acted in precisely the same manner as before.

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**Who acts:** Drake · **What happens:** appear, descend, act · **To what, where:** sky, same manner

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drake), 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:pg75000:16:10
# text = At the same hour as on the previous day the Drake again appeared in the sky, and descending upon the lake, acted in precisely the same manner as before.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Drake	Drake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	descending	descend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	acted	act	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	parataxis	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	precisely	precisely	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	before	before	ADV	RB	_	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the Drake |  |  | the sky | again; day; hour |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location |
| 2 | **descend** | gerund | the Drake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the lake | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **act** | participle |  |  |  | the same manner |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as before=Attribute |

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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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