--- title: Next morning at daybreak he set off about his business, and as soon… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: Next morning at daybreak he set off about his business, and as soon as he was gone the girl opened the pillar and released Baki, and after giving him a good breakfast, she spoke to him as follows: Who acts: Scarcely, girl. 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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 (Scarcely, girl), 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:pg75000:22:66 # text = Next morning at daybreak he set off about his business, and as soon as he was gone the girl opened the pillar and released Baki, and after giving him a good breakfast, she spoke to him as follows: 1 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 daybreak daybreak NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 off off ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 as as ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 pillar pillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 released release VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 Baki Baki PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 29 after after SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 advcl _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 iobj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 40 as as SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 41 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set off** | past | Scarcely | | | | morning | about Scarcely's business | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | Scarcely | | | | | gone, soon *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **open** | past | the girl | the pillar | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pillar=Theme | | 4 | **release** | past | the girl *not said here* | Baki | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer baki=Source | | 5 | **give** | gerund | girl *not said here* | a good breakfast | Baki | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient breakfast=Theme | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | girl | | Scarcely | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | | 7 | **follow** | present | girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/22/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/22/67/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Room Bacha and Baki.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/22/)