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title: One day a hungry Wolf was roaming about in search of something to ea… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: One day a hungry Wolf was roaming about in search of something to eat in the upper part of a Tibetan valley far beyond the level of cultivation, [3] when he came across a young Kyang [4] about a year old. Who acts: hungry Wolf, Wolf. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 1

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One day a hungry Wolf was roaming about in search of something to eat in the upper part of a Tibetan valley far beyond the level of cultivation, \[3\] when he came across a young Kyang \[4\] about a year old.

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**Who acts:** hungry Wolf, Wolf · **What happens:** roam, eat, come, search · **To what, where:** upper part, old, young Kyang, something

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hungry Wolf, Wolf), 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:pg75000:8:1
# text = One day a hungry Wolf was roaming about in search of something to eat in the upper part of a Tibetan valley far beyond the level of cultivation, [3] when he came across a young Kyang [4] about a year old.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	roaming	roam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Tibetan	Tibetan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
24	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	cultivation	cultivation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
36	across	across	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	Kyang	Kyang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	_
43	about	about	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl:unmarked	_	_
46	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roam** | past · progressive | a hungry Wolf |  |  |  | day | about search of something | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about search=Trajectory |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | a hungry Wolf *not said here* |  |  | the upper part of a Tibetan valley |  | beyond the level of cultivation | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | Wolf | old about a year |  | a young Kyang |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across kyang=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **search** |  |  | something |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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