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title: Shortly after the poor man coming into his house saw the young Sparr… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Shortly after the poor man coming into his house saw the young Sparrow lying helpless on his door-step, so he picked it up to see what was wrong, and found that its leg was broken. Who acts: poor man, young Sparrow, Sparrows. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 6

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Shortly after the poor man coming into his house saw the young Sparrow lying helpless on his door-step, so he picked it up to see what was wrong, and found that its leg was broken.

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**Who acts:** poor man, young Sparrow, Sparrows · **What happens:** come, see, lie, pick up, be, find · **To what, where:** house, young Sparrow, step, leg · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Two Neighbours.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, young Sparrow, Sparrows), 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:pg75000:5:6
# text = Shortly after the poor man coming into his house saw the young Sparrow lying helpless on his door-step, so he picked it up to see what was wrong, and found that its leg was broken.
1	Shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	helpless	helpless	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | the poor man *not said here* |  |  | Sparrows's house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | the poor man | the young Sparrow |  |  |  | shortly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sparrow=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | the young Sparrow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on Sparrows's door step; helpless *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location |
| 4 | **pick up** | past | Sparrows | step |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | Sparrows *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj*; wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **find** | past | the poor man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 8 | **break** | past · passive |  | step's leg |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 9 | **step** |  | Sparrows |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: 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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