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title: For some days he wandered on and on, scarcely conscious of what he w… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: For some days he wandered on and on, scarcely conscious of what he was doing, and at length, having passed beyond the part of the country which he knew, he arrived one day about noon on the shores of a vast expanse of water which stretched before him as far as he could see. Who acts: word, vast expa
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 59

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For some days he wandered on and on, scarcely conscious of what he was doing, and at length, having passed beyond the part of the country which he knew, he arrived one day about noon on the shores of a vast expanse of water which stretched before him as far as he could see.

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**Who acts:** word, vast expanse · **What happens:** wander, do, pass, know, arrive, stretch · **To what, where:** length, country, shores, word

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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 (word, vast expanse), 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:pg75000:16:59
# text = For some days he wandered on and on, scarcely conscious of what he was doing, and at length, having passed beyond the part of the country which he knew, he arrived one day about noon on the shores of a vast expanse of water which stretched before him as far as he could see.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	on	on	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	scarcely	scarcely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	conscious	conscious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	aux	_	_
23	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
24	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
38	about	about	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	expanse	expanse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
49	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
50	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
51	before	before	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
52	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
53	as	as	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	50	advmod	_	_
55	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | word |  |  |  | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past · progressive | word |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pass** | gerund · perfect | word *not said here* |  |  | length |  | beyond the part of the country | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at length=Location |
| 4 | **know** | past | word | the country |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 5 | **arrive** | past | word |  |  | the shores of a vast expanse of water | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **stretch** | past | a vast expanse of water | word |  |  |  | before, far *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 7 | **see** | could | word |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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