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title: So he hid himself in the water until evening, and as soon as it was… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So he hid himself in the water until evening, and as soon as it was dusk he came out on the land and proceeded very quietly to the cave where he and the Monkey had lived together, and concealed himself in the darkest corner of it waiting till the Monkey should come in. Who acts: Tortoise, water, dar
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 42

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So he hid himself in the water until evening, and as soon as it was dusk he came out on the land and proceeded very quietly to the cave where he and the Monkey had lived together, and concealed himself in the darkest corner of it waiting till the Monkey should come in.

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**Who acts:** Tortoise, water, darkest corner, Monkey · **What happens:** hide, be, come out, proceed, live together, conceal · **To what, where:** Tortoise, water, land, darkest corner

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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, water, darkest corner, Monkey), 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:pg75000:21:42
# text = So he hid himself in the water until evening, and as soon as it was dusk he came out on the land and proceeded very quietly to the cave where he and the Monkey had lived together, and concealed himself in the darkest corner of it waiting till the Monkey should come in.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	until	until	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	37	advmod	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Monkey	Monkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	acl:relcl	_	_
38	together	together	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
42	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	41	obj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	darkest	dark	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	46	amod	_	_
46	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nmod	_	_
49	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	acl	_	_
50	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
53	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	advcl	_	_
55	in	in	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past | Tortoise | Tortoise |  | the water | evening |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in water=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | water |  |  |  |  | as dusk | tree rules |
| 3 | **come out** | past | Tortoise |  |  | the land |  | out, soon *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **proceed** | past | Tortoise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the cave; quietly *property* | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **live together** | past · perfect | Tortoise |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **conceal** | past |  | Tortoise |  | the darkest corner of water |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in corner=Location |
| 7 | **wait** | gerund | the darkest corner of water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **come in** | should | the Monkey |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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