--- title: A short while after a party of travellers happened to be passing by… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: A short while after a party of travellers happened to be passing by this road from the same direction, and as they came along they were surprised to find a number of garments scattered about the roadway. Who acts: short while, travellers. 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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 (short while, travellers), 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:pg75000:7:57 # text = A short while after a party of travellers happened to be passing by this road from the same direction, and as they came along they were surprised to find a number of garments scattered about the roadway. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 after after ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 travellers traveller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux _ _ 12 passing pass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 15 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 25 along along ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 garments garment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 35 scattered scatter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 36 about about ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 roadway roadway NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | a short while after a party of travellers | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive · progressive | a short while after a party of travellers *not said here* | | | the same direction | | by this road | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by road=Location | | 3 | **come along** | past | travellers *= traveller* | | | | | along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | travellers *= traveller* | | | | | surprised *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | travellers *= traveller* *not said here* | a number of garments | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | | 6 | **scatter** | participle | | garments *not said here* | | | | about the roadway | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme about roadway=Destination | 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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/58/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/)