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description: So, accompanied by his wife, and carrying with him a very small piece of cloth as a present, he set out to pay them a visit. Who acts: news. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Stone Lion., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 33

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So, accompanied by his wife, and carrying with him a very small piece of cloth as a present, he set out to pay them a visit.

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**Who acts:** news · **What happens:** accompany, carry, set out, pay · **To what, where:** small piece, pieces

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Stone Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news), 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:pg75000:18:33
# text = So, accompanied by his wife, and carrying with him a very small piece of cloth as a present, he set out to pay them a visit.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accompany** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by news's wife | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by wife=Destination |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund |  | a small piece of cloth |  |  |  | with news; as a present | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme |
| 3 | **set out** | past | news |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **pay** | to-infinitive | news *not said here* | pieces *= piece* |  |  |  | a visit *obj* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient visit=Asset |

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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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