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title: So the older he grew the more careful she became, until at last she… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So the older he grew the more careful she became, until at last she saw that it was impossible to restrain the Boy any longer, and it would be necessary for him to go out into the world to seek his fortune, just as other young men of his age had to do. Who acts: Boy, Mother, other young men. A sente
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 4

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So the older he grew the more careful she became, until at last she saw that it was impossible to restrain the Boy any longer, and it would be necessary for him to go out into the world to seek his fortune, just as other young men of his age had to do.

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**Who acts:** Boy, Mother, other young men · **What happens:** grow, become, see, be, restrain, go out · **To what, where:** careful, last, Boy, world, fortune · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Mother, other young men), 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:pg75000:23:4
# text = So the older he grew the more careful she became, until at last she saw that it was impossible to restrain the Boy any longer, and it would be necessary for him to go out into the world to seek his fortune, just as other young men of his age had to do.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	expl	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	restrain	restrain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	csubj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	any	any	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	expl	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
32	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
33	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
37	out	out	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
46	just	just	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
47	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
48	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nsubj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
54	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Boy | the careful |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location careful=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | Mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | past | Mother |  |  | last |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **restrain** | to-infinitive |  | the Boy |  |  |  | long *property* | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer boy=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is** | would | Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **go out** | to-infinitive | Boy |  |  | the world |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **seek** | to-infinitive | Boy *not said here* | Boy's fortune |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme |
| 9 | **have** | past | other young men of Boy's age |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **do** | to-infinitive | other young men of Boy's age *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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