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title: It was now quite dark, and the enemy’s soldiers were all asleep in t… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: It was now quite dark, and the enemy’s soldiers were all asleep in their camp, some lying in tents and some in the open air, with their arms beside them ready for any alarm. Who acts: river, soldiers, some. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Country
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 48

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It was now quite dark, and the enemy’s soldiers were all asleep in their camp, some lying in tents and some in the open air, with their arms beside them ready for any alarm.

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**Who acts:** river, soldiers, some · **What happens:** be, lie · **To what, where:** camp, tents

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Country of the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, soldiers, some), 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:pg75000:20:48
# text = It was now quite dark, and the enemy’s soldiers were all asleep in their camp, some lying in tents and some in the open air, with their arms beside them ready for any alarm.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
33	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	_
35	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
38	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | river |  |  |  | now | dark *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the enemy's soldiers |  |  | soldiers's camp |  | all, asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | some |  |  | tents |  | with soldiers's arms beside soldiers | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tent=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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