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title: The young Tortoise accordingly swam to land, and after hunting about… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The young Tortoise accordingly swam to land, and after hunting about for some time in the forest he came across his father near the cave. Who acts: young Tortoise, Tortoise. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., w
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 10

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The young Tortoise accordingly swam to land, and after hunting about for some time in the forest he came across his father near the cave.

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**Who acts:** young Tortoise, Tortoise · **What happens:** swim, land, hunt, come · **To what, where:** forest

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Tortoise, Tortoise), 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:pg75000:21:10
# text = The young Tortoise accordingly swam to land, and after hunting about for some time in the forest he came across his father near the cave.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	across	across	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	near	near	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | past | the young Tortoise |  |  |  |  | accordingly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **land** | to-infinitive | the young Tortoise *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hunt** | gerund | the young Tortoise *not said here* |  |  | the forest | time | about *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location |
| 4 | **come** | past | Tortoise | the forest *not said here* |  |  |  | across Tortoise's father near the cave | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location forest=Theme |

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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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