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title: So they went along together and towards evening they came upon a lar… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So they went along together and towards evening they came upon a large house standing in a fertile valley. Who acts: two, large house. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 32

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So they went along together and towards evening they came upon a large house standing in a fertile valley.

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**Who acts:** two, large house · **What happens:** go along, come, stand · **To what, where:** large house, fertile valley

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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 (two, large house), 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:pg75000:19:32
# text = So they went along together and towards evening they came upon a large house standing in a fertile valley.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	along	along	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	fertile	fertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go along** | past | two |  |  |  |  | along, together *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | two |  |  | a large house | evening |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon house=Location |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | a large house *not said here* |  |  | a fertile valley |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in valley=Location |

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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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