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title: He had not proceeded very far when he met an old, worn-out pack-Bull… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: He had not proceeded very far when he met an old, worn-out pack-Bullock, thin and emaciated, and with the marks of many ancient scars on his back. Who acts: neighbourhood. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., with its 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 18

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He had not proceeded very far when he met an old, worn-out pack-Bullock, thin and emaciated, and with the marks of many ancient scars on his back.

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**Who acts:** neighbourhood · **What happens:** not proceed, meet, emaciate, mark · **To what, where:** old out pack, many ancient scars

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbourhood), 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:pg75000:3:18
# text = He had not proceeded very far when he met an old, worn-out pack-Bullock, thin and emaciated, and with the marks of many ancient scars on his back.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	worn	worn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	out	out	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Bullock	Bullock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	emaciated	emaciate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	scars	scar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **proceed** | past · perfect | neighbourhood |  |  |  |  | with the marks of many ancient scars on neighbourhood's back; far *property* | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **meet** | past | neighbourhood | a old out pack |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **emaciate** | participle | neighbourhood *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **mark** |  |  | many ancient scars on neighbourhood's back |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=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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