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title: It paused with great indecision, but again, its training standing it… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: It paused with great indecision, but again, its training standing it in good stead, it pursued its way towards the house. Who acts: courtyard, training. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., with its dependency tr
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 124

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It paused with great indecision, but again, its training standing it in good stead, it pursued its way towards the house.

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**Who acts:** courtyard, training · **What happens:** pause, stand, pursue, train · **To what, where:** courtyard, good stead, way, house

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courtyard, training), 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:pg75000:7:124
# text = It paused with great indecision, but again, its training standing it in good stead, it pursued its way towards the house.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	indecision	indecision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	training	training	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
12	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	stead	stead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pause** | past | courtyard |  |  |  | again | with great indecision; courtyard's training *parataxis* | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | courtyard's training *not said here* | courtyard |  | good stead |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in stead=Destination |
| 3 | **pursue** | past | courtyard | courtyard's way |  | the house |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent way=Theme towards house=Trajectory |
| 4 | **train** |  | courtyard |  |  |  |  |  | nom training «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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