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title: [8] Another version of the story says cakes of dried yaks’ dung inst… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: [8] Another version of the story says cakes of dried yaks’ dung instead of sticks—see accompanying illustration. Who acts: version. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Love Song., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, Love Song., sentence 20

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\[8\] Another version of the story says cakes of dried yaks’ dung instead of sticks—see accompanying illustration.

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**Who acts:** version · **What happens:** say, dry, see, accompany · **To what, where:** 8, illustration · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Love Song.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (version), 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:pg75000:27:20
# text = [8] Another version of the story says cakes of dried yaks’ dung instead of sticks—see accompanying illustration.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	yaks	yak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	dung	dung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
21	accompanying	accompany	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	illustration	illustration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | another version of the story | 8 |  |  |  | instead sticks; cakes of dried yaks's dung *obj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cake=Topic |
| 2 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | another version of the story *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **accompany** | gerund | another version of the story *not said here* | illustration |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illustration=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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