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title: So, leaning down over his horse’s neck, he pretended not to see the… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So, leaning down over his horse’s neck, he pretended not to see the Thief, and galloped past him down the road, as if in mad pursuit. Who acts: dzin. 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 p
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 67

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So, leaning down over his horse’s neck, he pretended not to see the Thief, and galloped past him down the road, as if in mad pursuit.

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**Who acts:** dzin · **What happens:** lean down, pretend, not see, gallop down · **To what, where:** neck, Thief, road, mad pursuit

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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 (dzin), 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:pg75000:19:67
# text = So, leaning down over his horse’s neck, he pretended not to see the Thief, and galloped past him down the road, as if in mad pursuit.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	past	past	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lean down** | gerund | dzin *not said here* |  |  | dzin's horse's neck |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over neck=Location |
| 2 | **pretend** | past | dzin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **see** | to-infinitive | dzin *not said here* | the Thief |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thief=Stimulus |
| 4 | **gallop down** | past | dzin *not said here* | the road |  | mad pursuit |  | past dzin | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent road=Theme past he=Initial\_Location in pursuit=Trajectory |

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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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