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title: When day broke the two Ravens began talking to one another. — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: When day broke the two Ravens began talking to one another. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 18

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When day broke the two Ravens began talking to one another.

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**What happens:** break, begin, talk · **To what, where:** two Ravens, one

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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: 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:pg75000:23:18
# text = When day broke the two Ravens began talking to one another.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	Ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past |  | the two Ravens |  |  | day |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer raven=Patient |
| 2 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **talk** | gerund |  |  | one |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to one=Co-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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