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title: So saying he took the pig’s head in both hands, and holding its snou… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So saying he took the pig’s head in both hands, and holding its snout towards the company, he went round from person to person, halting for a moment in front of each. Who acts: person. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise.,
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 52

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So saying he took the pig’s head in both hands, and holding its snout towards the company, he went round from person to person, halting for a moment in front of each.

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**Who acts:** person · **What happens:** say, take, hold, go round, halt · **To what, where:** head, hands, snout, person, front · **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 (person), 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:pg75000:23:52
# text = So saying he took the pig’s head in both hands, and holding its snout towards the company, he went round from person to person, halting for a moment in front of each.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	snout	snout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	round	round	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	halting	halt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | person | the pig's head |  | both hands |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Value in hand=Location |
| 3 | **hold** | gerund | person *not said here* | head's snout |  |  |  | towards the company | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snout=Theme |
| 4 | **go round** | past | person |  | person |  |  | from person; round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from person=Initial\_Location to person=Destination |
| 5 | **halt** | gerund | person *not said here* |  |  | front of each | moment |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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