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title: Baki grew rapidly in beauty and stature, and soon became an expert i… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Baki grew rapidly in beauty and stature, and soon became an expert in all sports and games. Who acts: Baki. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 43

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Baki grew rapidly in beauty and stature, and soon became an expert in all sports and games.

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**Who acts:** Baki · **What happens:** grow, become · **To what, where:** beauty, expert

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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 (Baki), 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:pg75000:22:43
# text = Baki grew rapidly in beauty and stature, and soon became an expert in all sports and games.
1	Baki	Baki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	expert	expert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Baki |  |  | beauty and stature |  | rapidly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in beauty=Location |
| 2 | **become** | past | Baki *not said here* | a expert in all sports and games |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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