--- title: So thinking to give it the slip, he jumped off his horse and ran alo… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: So thinking to give it the slip, he jumped off his horse and ran along the road on foot, until he got into the shade of a big poplar-tree growing near the road-side. Who acts: Boy, big poplar tree. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy, big poplar tree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:7:54 # text = So thinking to give it the slip, he jumped off his horse and ran along the road on foot, until he got into the shade of a big poplar-tree growing near the road-side. 1 So so ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 slip slip NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 off off ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 along along ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 until until SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 shade shade NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 30 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 31 poplar poplar NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 34 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ _ 35 near near ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | | puggaree | | | | the slip *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient slip=Theme | | 3 | **jump off** | past | Boy | Boy's horse | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Agent | | 4 | **run** | past | Boy *not said here* | | | foot | | along the road | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory | | 5 | **get** | past | Boy | | | the shade of a big poplar tree | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into shade=Destination | | 6 | **grow** | gerund | a big poplar tree *not said here* | | | the road side | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near side=Location | | 7 | **shade** | | | a big poplar tree | | | | | nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/55/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/)