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title: So next day the mother and her younger son left the house and set of… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So next day the mother and her younger son left the house and set off together to seek some means of livelihood on their own account. Who acts: mother, some, brothers. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Stone Lion., with its dependency 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 9

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So next day the mother and her younger son left the house and set off together to seek some means of livelihood on their own account.

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**Who acts:** mother, some, brothers · **What happens:** leave, set off, seek, mean, account · **To what, where:** house

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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 (mother, some, brothers), 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:pg75000:18:9
# text = So next day the mother and her younger son left the house and set off together to seek some means of livelihood on their own account.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	nsubj	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	livelihood	livelihood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | the mother and mother's younger son | the house |  |  | day |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 2 | **set off** | past | the mother and mother's younger son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **seek** | to-infinitive | the mother and mother's younger son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | present | some |  |  |  |  | of livelihood on brothers's own account | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **account** |  | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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