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title: As soon as he was out of sight the Hare saw two Ravens sitting in a… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as he was out of sight the Hare saw two Ravens sitting in a tree overhead. Who acts: Man, Hare, two Ravens. 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 35

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As soon as he was out of sight the Hare saw two Ravens sitting in a tree overhead.

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**Who acts:** Man, Hare, two Ravens · **What happens:** be, see, sit · **To what, where:** sight, two Ravens, tree overhead

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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 (Man, Hare, two Ravens), 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:pg75000:2:35
# text = As soon as he was out of sight the Hare saw two Ravens sitting in a tree overhead.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	Ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	overhead	overhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Man |  |  | sight |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | the Hare | two Ravens |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer raven=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund | two Ravens *not said here* |  |  | a tree overhead |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in overhead=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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