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title: Some months passed away and the poor woman, falling ill, was at leng… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 58

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Some months passed away and the poor woman, falling ill, was at length reduced to such complete destitution that she had not even a morsel of bread to bring to her husband, and one morning she came weeping up the hill, and addressed him as follows:

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**Who acts:** months, woman · **What happens:** pass away, fall, be, reduce, have, bring · **To what, where:** length, such complete destitution, morsel, husband, hill

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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 (months, woman), 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:pg75000:18:58
# text = Some months passed away and the poor woman, falling ill, was at length reduced to such complete destitution that she had not even a morsel of bread to bring to her husband, and one morning she came weeping up the hill, and addressed him as follows:
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
16	reduced	reduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	destitution	destitution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
25	even	even	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl:unmarked	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
41	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	_
42	up	up	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
48	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
50	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass away** | past | some months |  |  |  |  | the poor woman *conj*; away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund | some months *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  | length |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reduce** | participle |  | length *not said here* |  |  |  | to such complete destitution *goal* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer to destitution=Goal |
| 5 | **have** | past | woman | a morsel of bread |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Patient |
| 6 | **bring** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | a morsel of bread *not said here* | woman's husband |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to husband=Destination |
| 7 | **come** | past | woman |  |  |  | morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **weep up** | gerund | woman *not said here* | the hill |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hill=Theme |
| 9 | **address** | past | some months *not said here* |  | husband |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination |
| 10 | **follow** | present | some months *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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