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title: As soon as Rambé had passed the cushion where the Cat was seated and… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as Rambé had passed the cushion where the Cat was seated and had made his salaam, he called out in a shrill voice. Who acts: Rambé, procession. 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 tree and t
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 20

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As soon as Rambé had passed the cushion where the Cat was seated and had made his salaam, he called out in a shrill voice.

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**Who acts:** Rambé, procession · **What happens:** pass, seat, make, call out, salaam · **To what, where:** cushion, Cat, salaam, shrill voice

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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 (Rambé, 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:pg75000:6:20
# text = As soon as Rambé had passed the cushion where the Cat was seated and had made his salaam, he called out in a shrill voice.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	Rambé	Rambé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cushion	cushion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	salaam	salaam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	shrill	shrill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · perfect | Rambé | the cushion |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cushion=Trajectory |
| 2 | **seat** | past · passive |  | the Cat |  |  |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
| 3 | **make** | past · perfect | Rambé *not said here* | procession's salaam |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset salaam=Product |
| 4 | **call out** *speech: assert* | past | procession |  |  | a shrill voice |  | soon *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **salaam** |  | procession |  |  |  |  |  | nom salaam «communication 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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