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title: So next day the husband proceeded to the town, and after a prolonged… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 37

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So next day the husband proceeded to the town, and after a prolonged search purchased the largest bucket which was to be had in the whole place.

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**Who acts:** husband, prolonged search · **What happens:** proceed, prolong, purchase, have · **To what, where:** largest bucket, whole place

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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 (husband, prolonged search), 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:pg75000:18:37
# text = So next day the husband proceeded to the town, and after a prolonged search purchased the largest bucket which was to be had in the whole place.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	prolonged	prolong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	purchased	purchase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proceed** | past | the husband |  |  |  | day | to the town | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **prolong** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **purchase** | past | a prolonged search | the largest bucket |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bucket=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past · passive | a prolonged search *not said here* | the largest bucket |  | the whole place |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: which=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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