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title: On hearing this voice emerging from the upper branches of the tree,… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: On hearing this voice emerging from the upper branches of the tree, the travellers were greatly alarmed. Who acts: voice. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 62

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On hearing this voice emerging from the upper branches of the tree, the travellers were greatly alarmed.

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**Who acts:** voice · **What happens:** hear, emerge, alarm · **To what, where:** voice, upper branches, travellers

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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 (voice), 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:pg75000:7:62
# text = On hearing this voice emerging from the upper branches of the tree, the travellers were greatly alarmed.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	emerging	emerge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	travellers	traveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	alarmed	alarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund |  | this voice |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 2 | **emerge** | gerund | this voice *not said here* |  |  | the upper branches of the tree |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from branch=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **alarm** | past · passive |  | the travellers |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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