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title: The four young men at once started off in pursuit; but the horses up… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The four young men at once started off in pursuit; but the horses upon which the King’s sons were riding gradually tired, and one after another they dropped out of the hunt, leaving Baki to continue alone. Who acts: four young men, horses, one, Baki. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 45

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The four young men at once started off in pursuit; but the horses upon which the King’s sons were riding gradually tired, and one after another they dropped out of the hunt, leaving Baki to continue alone.

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**Who acts:** four young men, horses, one, Baki · **What happens:** start off, ride, drop out, leave, continue · **To what, where:** pursuit, hunt, Baki

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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 (four young men, horses, one, 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:pg75000:22:45
# text = The four young men at once started off in pursuit; but the horses upon which the King’s sons were riding gradually tired, and one after another they dropped out of the hunt, leaving Baki to continue alone.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	obl	_	_
7	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	20	det	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	acl:relcl	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
23	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nsubj	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	nmod	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
38	Baki	Baki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
41	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start off** | past | the four young men |  |  | pursuit |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **ride** | past · progressive | the horses  the King's sons |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drop out** | past | one after another | the hunt |  |  |  | child *nsubj* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunt=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund | one after another *not said here* | Baki |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **continue** | to-infinitive | Baki *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | 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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