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title: At the appointed time the procession started as usual, and as soon a… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: At the appointed time the procession started as usual, and as soon as Rambé had passed the Cat he squeaked out: Who acts: procession, Rambé. 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 the pragmati
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 29

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At the appointed time the procession started as usual, and as soon as Rambé had passed the Cat he squeaked out:

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**Who acts:** procession, Rambé · **What happens:** appoint, start, pass, squeak out · **To what, where:** Cat

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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), 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:pg75000:6:29
# text = At the appointed time the procession started as usual, and as soon as Rambé had passed the Cat he squeaked out:
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	Rambé	Rambé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	squeaked	squeak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appoint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **start** | past | the procession |  |  |  | time | as usual | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **pass** | past · perfect | Rambé | the Cat |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cat=Trajectory |
| 4 | **squeak out** | past | procession | the Cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cat=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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