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title: Presently he arrived in front of the Bridegroom, who had been so rud… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently he arrived in front of the Bridegroom, who had been so rude to him some days before, and the pig’s head at once became violently agitated, and kept poking itself towards this man. Who acts: person, Bridegroom. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 53

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Presently he arrived in front of the Bridegroom, who had been so rude to him some days before, and the pig’s head at once became violently agitated, and kept poking itself towards this man.

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**Who acts:** person, Bridegroom · **What happens:** arrive, be, become, agitate, keep, poke · **To what, where:** front, person, head

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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, Bridegroom), 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:pg75000:23:53
# text = Presently he arrived in front of the Bridegroom, who had been so rude to him some days before, and the pig’s head at once became violently agitated, and kept poking itself towards this man.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Bridegroom	Bridegroom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	before	before	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
26	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	28	advmod	_	_
28	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
29	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	agitated	agitate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	poking	poke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	xcomp	_	_
35	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	34	obj	_	_
36	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
38	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | person |  |  | front of the Bridegroom |  | the pig's head *conj*; before, presently *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | the Bridegroom |  | person |  |  | rude *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | past | person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **agitate** | participle | person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | violently *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **keep** | past | person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **poke** | gerund | person *not said here* | head |  |  |  | towards this man | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=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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