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title: Next morning the Hare went hopping down the road when he met a Man d… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Next morning the Hare went hopping down the road when he met a Man driving along a lot of Horses. Who acts: Hare, Man. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 30

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Next morning the Hare went hopping down the road when he met a Man driving along a lot of Horses.

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**Who acts:** Hare, Man · **What happens:** go, hop, meet, drive · **To what, where:** road, Man, lot

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How the Hare Got His Split Lip.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, Man), 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:pg75000:2:30
# text = Next morning the Hare went hopping down the road when he met a Man driving along a lot of Horses.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	hopping	hop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	along	along	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the Hare |  |  |  | morning |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hop** | gerund | the Hare *not said here* |  |  | the road |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down road=Trajectory |
| 3 | **meet** | past | hare | a Man |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **drive** | gerund | a Man *not said here* |  |  | a lot of Horses |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along lot=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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