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title: “Oh!” replied the Wolf, “I am going into the valley to meet a young… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh!” replied the Wolf, “I am going into the valley to meet a young Kyang by appointment, as I have arranged to catch him and eat him this very day.” Who acts: Wolf. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., with its
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 11

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“Oh!” replied the Wolf, “I am going into the valley to meet a young Kyang by appointment, as I have arranged to catch him and eat him this very day.”

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**Who acts:** Wolf · **What happens:** reply, go, meet, arrange, catch, eat · **To what, where:** valley, young Kyang, Wolf · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg75000:8:11
# text = “Oh!” replied the Wolf, “I am going into the valley to meet a young Kyang by appointment, as I have arranged to catch him and eat him this very day.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Kyang	Kyang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	appointment	appointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
35	very	very	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the Wolf *= wolf* |  |  | the valley |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into valley=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **meet** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Wolf *= wolf* *not said here* | a young Kyang |  |  |  | by appointment | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kyang=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **arrange** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Wolf *= wolf* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **catch** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Wolf *= wolf* *not said here* | Wolf |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Wolf *= wolf* *not said here* | Wolf |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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