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title: The boy without any hesitation went forward along the path, followed… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The boy without any hesitation went forward along the path, followed by his mother, and after travelling for some distance they emerged from the great grass jungle into an open cultivated country. Who acts: boy, child. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor,
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 39

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The boy without any hesitation went forward along the path, followed by his mother, and after travelling for some distance they emerged from the great grass jungle into an open cultivated country.

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**Who acts:** boy, child · **What happens:** go, follow, travel, emerge, cultivate · **To what, where:** path, open cultivated country, distance, great grass jungle

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, child), 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:pg75000:22:39
# text = The boy without any hesitation went forward along the path, followed by his mother, and after travelling for some distance they emerged from the great grass jungle into an open cultivated country.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	along	along	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	emerged	emerge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the boy without any hesitation |  |  | the path |  | forward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along path=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **follow** | participle |  | the path *not said here* |  |  |  | by boy's mother | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by mother=Location |
| 3 | **travel** | gerund | the boy without any hesitation *not said here* |  |  | a open cultivated country |  | for some distance | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into country=Destination |
| 4 | **emerge** | past | child | some distance *not said here* |  | the great grass jungle |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme |
| 5 | **cultivate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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