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title: For some time great bustle prevailed, everyone searching hither and… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: For some time great bustle prevailed, everyone searching hither and thither, and ransacking every hole and corner; but no one thought of examining the piece of dirty rag thrust carelessly into a crevice of the farmyard wall. Who acts: one thought. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Fre
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 42

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For some time great bustle prevailed, everyone searching hither and thither, and ransacking every hole and corner; but no one thought of examining the piece of dirty rag thrust carelessly into a crevice of the farmyard wall.

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**Who acts:** one thought · **What happens:** prevail, search, ransack, examine · **To what, where:** time great bustle, hole, piece, crevice

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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 (one thought), 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:pg75000:23:42
# text = For some time great bustle prevailed, everyone searching hither and thither, and ransacking every hole and corner; but no one thought of examining the piece of dirty rag thrust carelessly into a crevice of the farmyard wall.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	nsubj	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bustle	bustle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	conj	_	_
9	searching	search	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	ransacking	ransack	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	conj	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
23	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	examining	examine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	rag	rag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	crevice	crevice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **prevail** | participle |  | time great bustle  everyone but no one thought *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **search** | gerund |  |  |  | thither |  | hither *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ransack** | gerund |  | every hole and corner |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent hole=Location |
| 4 | **examine** | gerund | no one thought *not said here* | the piece of dirty rag thrust |  | a crevice of the farmyard wall |  | carelessly *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=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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