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title: So thinking, he concealed the bag of gold under a tuft of grass by t… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So thinking, he concealed the bag of gold under a tuft of grass by the roadside, and started off to retrace his steps to pick up the first boot. Who acts: thief. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., with its dependency tr
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 80

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So thinking, he concealed the bag of gold under a tuft of grass by the roadside, and started off to retrace his steps to pick up the first boot.

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**Who acts:** thief · **What happens:** think, conceal, start off, retrace, pick up, step · **To what, where:** bag, tuft, steps, first boot

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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 (thief), 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:pg75000:19:80
# text = So thinking, he concealed the bag of gold under a tuft of grass by the roadside, and started off to retrace his steps to pick up the first boot.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tuft	tuft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	roadside	roadside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	retrace	retrace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	31	amod	_	_
31	boot	boot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | thief *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **conceal** | past | thief | the bag of gold |  | a tuft of grass |  | by the roadside | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bag=Patient under tuft=Location |
| 3 | **start off** | past | thief *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **retrace** | to-infinitive | thief *not said here* | thief's steps |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pick up** | to-infinitive | thief *not said here* | the first boot |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Topic |
| 6 | **step** |  | thief |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act 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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