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title: As day was dawning the two Ravens overhead began talking to one anot… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: As day was dawning the two Ravens overhead began talking to one another as before, and the boy overheard their conversation. Who acts: boy, Ravens. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Dislodged the Spider., with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 2

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As day was dawning the two Ravens overhead began talking to one another as before, and the boy overheard their conversation.

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**Who acts:** boy, Ravens · **What happens:** dawn, begin, talk, overhear, converse · **To what, where:** two Ravens, one, conversation

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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 (boy, Ravens), 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:pg75000:24:2
# text = As day was dawning the two Ravens overhead began talking to one another as before, and the boy overheard their conversation.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	dawning	dawn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	Ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	overhead	overhead	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	fixed	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	before	before	ADV	RB	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	overheard	overhear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dawn** | past · progressive |  | the two Ravens |  |  | day |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location raven=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  | overhead *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **talk** | gerund |  |  | one |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to one=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **overhear** | past | the boy | Ravens's conversation |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer conversation=Stimulus |
| 5 | **converse** |  | Ravens *= raven* |  |  |  |  |  | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=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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