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title: The Buffalo gazed at them with her big eyes, and after ruminating fo… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The Buffalo gazed at them with her big eyes, and after ruminating for a while she replied slowly: Who acts: Buffalo. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 52

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The Buffalo gazed at them with her big eyes, and after ruminating for a while she replied slowly:

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**Who acts:** Buffalo · **What happens:** gaze, ruminate, reply

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buffalo), 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:pg75000:4:52
# text = The Buffalo gazed at them with her big eyes, and after ruminating for a while she replied slowly:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Buffalo	Buffalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	ruminating	ruminate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | past | the Buffalo |  |  |  |  | at matters *= matter*; with Buffalo's big eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |
| 2 | **ruminate** | gerund | Buffalo *not said here* |  |  |  | while |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Buffalo |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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