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title: After running after his horse for some distance he gave it up in des… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: After running after his horse for some distance he gave it up in despair, and lay down to pass the night as best he could under a big poplar-tree. Who acts: Boy. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., with its dependency tr
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 16

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After running after his horse for some distance he gave it up in despair, and lay down to pass the night as best he could under a big poplar-tree.

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**Who acts:** Boy · **What happens:** run, give up, lay down, pass · **To what, where:** horse, despair, best

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy), 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:pg75000:23:16
# text = After running after his horse for some distance he gave it up in despair, and lay down to pass the night as best he could under a big poplar-tree.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	obl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
27	under	under	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	poplar	poplar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **run** | gerund | Boy *not said here* |  |  |  | after Boy's horse | for some distance | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for distance=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **give up** | past | Boy | horse |  | despair |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source |
| 3 | **lay down** | infinitive | Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pass** | to-infinitive | Boy *not said here* | best |  |  | night |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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