--- title: The two animals now entered into conversation with one another, and… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: The two animals now entered into conversation with one another, and soon striking up quite a friendship, the Monkey led away the Tortoise into the jungle, and showed him a comfortable cave where he could spend the night. Who acts: two animals, Monkey, Tortoise. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two animals, Monkey, Tortoise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:21:6 # text = The two animals now entered into conversation with one another, and soon striking up quite a friendship, the Monkey led away the Tortoise into the jungle, and showed him a comfortable cave where he could spend the night. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 5 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 conversation conversation NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 10 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 9 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 14 striking strike VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 quite quite DET PDT PronType=Ind 18 det:predet _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 friendship friendship NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 23 away away ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Tortoise Tortoise PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 jungle jungle NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 iobj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 comfortable comfortable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 36 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 39 advmod _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 acl:relcl _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enter** | past | the two animals | | | conversation | now | with one | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into conversation=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **strike up** | gerund | the two animals *not said here* | quite friendship | | | | soon *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friendship=Patient | | 3 | **lead away** | past | the Monkey | the Tortoise | | the jungle | | away *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tortoise=Theme into jungle=Destination | | 4 | **show** | past | the Monkey *not said here* | a comfortable cave | Tortoise | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cave=Topic | | 5 | **spend** | could | Tortoise | | | | night | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/21/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/21/7/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/21/)