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title: So next evening, when the procession started as usual, Rambé marched… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So next evening, when the procession started as usual, Rambé marched along in front, and Ambé took up his position last of all. Who acts: procession, Rambé, Ambé. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., with its dependency
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 19

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So next evening, when the procession started as usual, Rambé marched along in front, and Ambé took up his position last of all.

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**Who acts:** procession, Rambé, Ambé · **What happens:** start, march, take up · **To what, where:** front, position

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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 (procession, Rambé, Ambé), 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:pg75000:6:19
# text = So next evening, when the procession started as usual, Rambé marched along in front, and Ambé took up his position last of all.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	Rambé	Rambé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	marched	march	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	along	along	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Ambé	Ambé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | the procession |  |  |  |  | as usual | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **march** | past | Rambé |  |  | front | evening | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory |
| 3 | **take up** | past | Ambé | procession's position |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Theme |

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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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