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title: He wandered about with the sheep all day, feeling very miserable, an… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: He wandered about with the sheep all day, feeling very miserable, and trying to accommodate himself to the manners and customs of his new companions, and when evening came he accompanied them into the fold where they always spent the night. Who acts: Boy, evening, companions. A sentence of «Folk tal
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 85

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He wandered about with the sheep all day, feeling very miserable, and trying to accommodate himself to the manners and customs of his new companions, and when evening came he accompanied them into the fold where they always spent the night.

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**Who acts:** Boy, evening, companions · **What happens:** wander, feel, try, accommodate, come, accompany · **To what, where:** Boy, manners, companions, fold

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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 (Boy, evening, companions), 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:pg75000:7:85
# text = He wandered about with the sheep all day, feeling very miserable, and trying to accommodate himself to the manners and customs of his new companions, and when evening came he accompanied them into the fold where they always spent the night.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	accommodate	accommodate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
31	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	fold	fold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	42	advmod	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	42	advmod	_	_
42	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wander** | past | Boy |  |  |  | day | with the sheep; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | gerund | Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | miserable *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **try** | gerund | Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **accommodate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Boy *not said here* | Boy |  |  |  | to the manners and customs of Boy's new companions *goal* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient to manners=Goal |
| 5 | **come** | past | evening |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **accompany** | past | Boy | companions *= companion* |  | the fold |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into fold=Destination |
| 7 | **spend** | past | companions *= companion* |  |  |  | night | always *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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