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title: As soon as it is big enough it will push me away from the places whe… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as it is big enough it will push me away from the places where I am grazing and take the best for itself, and will drive me away altogether from the pastures if it can. Who acts: power, I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Fai
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 69

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As soon as it is big enough it will push me away from the places where I am grazing and take the best for itself, and will drive me away altogether from the pastures if it can.

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**Who acts:** power, I · **What happens:** be, push away, graze, take, drive away · **To what, where:** me, places, best, pastures

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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 (power, I), 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:pg75000:4:69
# text = As soon as it is big enough it will push me away from the places where I am grazing and take the best for itself, and will drive me away altogether from the pastures if it can.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	grazing	graze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	drive	drive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	pastures	pasture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
36	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | power |  |  |  |  | big, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **push away** | future | power | me |  | the places |  | away, soon *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme from place=Trajectory |
| 3 | **graze** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | power *not said here* | the best |  |  |  | for power | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent good=Theme for itself=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **drive away** | future |  | me |  | the pastures |  | altogether, away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from pasture=Trajectory |

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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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