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title: After leaving the house where he had found the turquoise, the home-b… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: After leaving the house where he had found the turquoise, the home-bred Boy wandered along until, towards nightfall, he arrived at the same poplar-tree where he had previously stayed the night, and, lying down under its branches, he fell fast asleep, and did not wake up until towards morning. Who ac
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 1

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After leaving the house where he had found the turquoise, the home-bred Boy wandered along until, towards nightfall, he arrived at the same poplar-tree where he had previously stayed the night, and, lying down under its branches, he fell fast asleep, and did not wake up until towards morning.

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**Who acts:** bred Boy, he, Boy · **What happens:** leave, find, breed, wander, arrive, have · **To what, where:** house, turquoise, same poplar tree, branches

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Dislodged the Spider.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bred Boy, he, Boy), 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:pg75000:24:1
# text = After leaving the house where he had found the turquoise, the home-bred Boy wandered along until, towards nightfall, he arrived at the same poplar-tree where he had previously stayed the night, and, lying down under its branches, he fell fast asleep, and did not wake up until towards morning.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	turquoise	turquoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	bred	breed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	along	along	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	poplar	poplar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
35	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
42	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	49	advcl	_	_
43	down	down	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	under	under	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
50	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	49	advmod	_	_
51	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
54	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	56	advmod	_	_
56	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
57	up	up	ADP	RP	_	56	compound:prt	_	_
58	until	until	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund | the bred Boy *not said here* | the house |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past · perfect | he | the turquoise |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turquoise=Topic |
| 3 | **breed** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | home *compound* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wander** | past | the bred Boy |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **arrive** | past | Boy |  |  | the same poplar tree |  | towards nightfall | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards nightfall=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **have** | past | Boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **stay** | past | Boy *not said here* |  |  |  | night | previously *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **lie down** | gerund | Boy *not said here* |  |  | tree's branches |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under branch=Location |
| 9 | **fall** | past | Boy |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **not** **wake up** | past · do-support | the bred Boy *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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