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title: The Tortoise, on hearing these words, fell into a violent passion, a… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 41

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The Tortoise, on hearing these words, fell into a violent passion, and made several efforts to climb the tree in order to punish the Monkey, but being quite unable to climb at all, he soon gave up his attempt and determined to get even with the Monkey in some other way.

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**Who acts:** Tortoise, several efforts · **What happens:** hear, fall, make, climb, punish, be · **To what, where:** words, violent passion, several efforts, tree, Monkey, all

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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 (Tortoise, several efforts), 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:pg75000:21:41
# text = The Tortoise, on hearing these words, fell into a violent passion, and made several efforts to climb the tree in order to punish the Monkey, but being quite unable to climb at all, he soon gave up his attempt and determined to get even with the Monkey in some other way.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
24	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	fixed	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	cop	_	_
32	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	_
41	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
42	up	up	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	conj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	_
49	even	even	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	56	det	_	_
55	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | the Tortoise *not said here* | this words |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the Tortoise |  |  |  |  | into a violent passion *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into passion=Result |
| 3 | **make** | past | the Tortoise *not said here* | several efforts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **climb** | to-infinitive | several efforts *not said here* | the tree |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |
| 5 | **punish** | to-infinitive | several efforts *not said here* | the Monkey |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | gerund | the Tortoise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **climb** | to-infinitive | the Tortoise *not said here* |  |  | all |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory |
| 8 | **give up** | past | Tortoise | Tortoise's attempt |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Source |
| 9 | **get** | to-infinitive | Tortoise *not said here* | the Monkey |  | some other way |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monkey=Stimulus |
| 10 | **attempt** |  | Tortoise |  |  |  |  |  | nom attempt «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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