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title: He saved my young ones from destruction by attacking, single-handed,… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: He saved my young ones from destruction by attacking, single-handed, and killing a Dragon who was on the point of devouring them. Who acts: monster, point. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., with its depende
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 86

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He saved my young ones from destruction by attacking, single-handed, and killing a Dragon who was on the point of devouring them.

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**Who acts:** monster, point · **What happens:** save, attack, hand, kill, be, devour · **To what, where:** young ones, destruction, Dragon, point, man

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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 (monster, point), 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:pg75000:16:86
# text = He saved my young ones from destruction by attacking, single-handed, and killing a Dragon who was on the point of devouring them.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	attacking	attack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	csubj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
24	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	devouring	devour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | past | monster | my young ones |  | destruction |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme from destruction=Source |
| 2 | **attack** | gerund | monster *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hand** | participle | monster *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **kill** | gerund |  | a Dragon |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the point |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **devour** | gerund | the point *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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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