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title: Hither and thither rushed the horse amongst the tents of the enemy,… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Hither and thither rushed the horse amongst the tents of the enemy, trampling the frightened soldiers underfoot, whilst the Boy in his struggles to maintain his balance, swept his great branch to and fro with equally disastrous effect. Who acts: Boy. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Defeated the Enemy., sentence 10

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Hither and thither rushed the horse amongst the tents of the enemy, trampling the frightened soldiers underfoot, whilst the Boy in his struggles to maintain his balance, swept his great branch to and fro with equally disastrous effect.

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**Who acts:** Boy · **What happens:** rush, trample, maintain, sweep, fro, struggle · **To what, where:** horse, tents, frightened soldiers, balance, great branch

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Defeated the Enemy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg75000:25:10
# text = Hither and thither rushed the horse amongst the tents of the enemy, trampling the frightened soldiers underfoot, whilst the Boy in his struggles to maintain his balance, swept his great branch to and fro with equally disastrous effect.
1	Hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	trampling	trample	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	underfoot	underfoot	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	struggles	struggle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	maintain	maintain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	balance	balance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	disastrous	disastrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past |  | the horse |  | the tents of the enemy |  | hither, thither *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent horse=Theme amongst tent=Trajectory |
| 2 | **trample** | gerund |  | the frightened soldiers |  |  |  | the Boy *obj*; underfoot *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **maintain** | to-infinitive |  | Boy's balance |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent balance=Theme |
| 4 | **sweep** | past |  | Boy's great branch |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme branch=Trajectory |
| 5 | **fro** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with disastrous effect | tree rules |
| 6 | **struggle** |  | Boy |  |  |  |  |  | nom struggle «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **balance** |  | Boy |  |  |  |  |  | nom balance «state 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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