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title: So he pursued it and caught it, and carrying it into the ground floo… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So he pursued it and caught it, and carrying it into the ground floor of the house, he went up into the room above, and letting down a rope through a hole in the floor he hitched a slip-knot at the other end of the rope round the sheep’s neck. Who acts: Servant. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet»
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 10

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So he pursued it and caught it, and carrying it into the ground floor of the house, he went up into the room above, and letting down a rope through a hole in the floor he hitched a slip-knot at the other end of the rope round the sheep’s neck.

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**Who acts:** Servant · **What happens:** pursue, catch, carry, go up, let down, hitch · **To what, where:** life, ground floor, room, rope, slip knot, hole

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Servant), 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:pg75000:19:10
# text = So he pursued it and caught it, and carrying it into the ground floor of the house, he went up into the room above, and letting down a rope through a hole in the floor he hitched a slip-knot at the other end of the rope round the sheep’s neck.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	above	above	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
30	down	down	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	through	through	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	hitched	hitch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	knot	knot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
45	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
52	round	round	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	’s	's	PART	POS	_	54	case	_	_
56	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pursue** | past | Servant | life |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | past | Servant *not said here* | life |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | Servant *not said here* | life |  | the ground floor of the house |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **go up** | past | Servant |  |  | the room |  | above *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **let down** | gerund | Servant *not said here* | a rope |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme |
| 6 | **hitch** | past | Servant | a slip knot |  | a hole in the floor | at the other end of the rope | round the sheep's neck | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=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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