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description: They agreed that Rambé was always to walk at the very front of the procession of the Mice, and that Ambé was to bring up the rear, and that all the time the procession was passing, Rambé was to call to Ambé, and Ambé to answer Rambé at frequent intervals. Who acts: names, Rambé, Ambé, procession. A 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 18

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They agreed that Rambé was always to walk at the very front of the procession of the Mice, and that Ambé was to bring up the rear, and that all the time the procession was passing, Rambé was to call to Ambé, and Ambé to answer Rambé at frequent intervals.

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**Who acts:** names, Rambé, Ambé, procession, Mice · **What happens:** agree, be, pass, answer, proceed · **To what, where:** front, time, Ambé, Rambé, frequent intervals · **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 Cat and the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (names, Rambé, Ambé, procession), 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:pg75000:6:18
# text = They agreed that Rambé was always to walk at the very front of the procession of the Mice, and that Ambé was to bring up the rear, and that all the time the procession was passing, Rambé was to call to Ambé, and Ambé to answer Rambé at frequent intervals.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	Rambé	Rambé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	Ambé	Ambé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	rear	rear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	34	det:predet	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	advcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
40	Rambé	Rambé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Ambé	Ambé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	Ambé	Ambé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
51	Rambé	Rambé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
52	at	at	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	intervals	interval	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | names *= name* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | past | Rambé |  |  | the front of the procession of the Mice |  | always, walk *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Ambé |  |  |  |  | the rear *obj*; bring *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** | past · progressive | the procession | all time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Trajectory |
| 5 | **is** | past | Rambé |  | Ambé |  |  | call *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Ambé |  | Rambé | frequent intervals |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rambé=Eventuality |
| 7 | **proceed** |  | the Mice |  |  |  |  |  | nom procession «event intransitive»: of=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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