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title: He had not proceeded very far when he fell in with another young man… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: He had not proceeded very far when he fell in with another young man going in the same direction as himself, and the two, joining company, fell into conversation. Who acts: Lama, young man, two. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 28

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He had not proceeded very far when he fell in with another young man going in the same direction as himself, and the two, joining company, fell into conversation.

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**Who acts:** Lama, young man, two · **What happens:** not proceed, fall in, go, join, fall · **To what, where:** same direction, conversation

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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 (Lama, young man, two), 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:pg75000:19:28
# text = He had not proceeded very far when he fell in with another young man going in the same direction as himself, and the two, joining company, fell into conversation.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	joining	join	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **proceed** | past · perfect | Lama |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fall in** | past | Lama |  |  |  |  | with another young man | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | another young man *not said here* |  |  | the same direction as Lama |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=Location |
| 4 | **join** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **fall** | past | the two and joining company |  |  |  |  | into conversation *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into conversation=Result |

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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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