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title: One of them hoisted him up on to his back, and they carried him alon… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: One of them hoisted him up on to his back, and they carried him along for some distance until they reached the banks of a small stream. Who acts: One, robbers. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., with its depend
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 87

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One of them hoisted him up on to his back, and they carried him along for some distance until they reached the banks of a small stream.

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**Who acts:** One, robbers · **What happens:** hoist up, carry, reach · **To what, where:** Boy, back, banks

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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 (One, robbers), 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:pg75000:7:87
# text = One of them hoisted him up on to his back, and they carried him along for some distance until they reached the banks of a small stream.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	hoisted	hoist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	along	along	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hoist up** | past | One of robbers | Boy |  | Boy's back |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on back=Destination |
| 2 | **carry** | past | robbers *= robber* | Boy |  |  |  | for some distance; along *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | past | robbers *= robber* | the banks of a small stream |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bank=Theme |

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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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