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title: There must be something wrong,” and saying this he again called out: — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: There must be something wrong,” and saying this he again called out: Who acts: something. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 52

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There must be something wrong,” and saying this he again called out:

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**Who acts:** something · **What happens:** be, say, call out · **To what, where:** this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (something), 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:pg75000:21:52
# text = There must be something wrong,” and saying this he again called out:
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | something |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **call out** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | participle · passive |  | this |  |  | again | Tortoise *nsubj* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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