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title: Every day, when he grew big enough, he used to drive the cows out to… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Every day, when he grew big enough, he used to drive the cows out to pasture, and all day long he sat about on the hillsides watching the cattle graze. Who acts: child, hillsides. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 3

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Every day, when he grew big enough, he used to drive the cows out to pasture, and all day long he sat about on the hillsides watching the cattle graze.

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**Who acts:** child, hillsides · **What happens:** grow, use, drive out, pasture, sit about, watch · **To what, where:** cows, hillsides, cattle graze

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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 (child, hillsides), 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:pg75000:16:3
# text = Every day, when he grew big enough, he used to drive the cows out to pasture, and all day long he sat about on the hillsides watching the cattle graze.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	pasture	pasture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	hillsides	hillside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	graze	graze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | child |  |  |  | day | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | past | child |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **drive out** | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | the cows |  |  |  | out *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme |
| 4 | **pasture** | to-infinitive | child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sit about** | past | child |  |  | the hillsides | day | about *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hillside=Location |
| 6 | **watch** | gerund | the hillsides *not said here* | the cattle graze |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent graze=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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