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title: So he took the rope and made a large slip-knot at one end and two sm… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So he took the rope and made a large slip-knot at one end and two smaller slip-knots at the other end. Who acts: Hare. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 40

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So he took the rope and made a large slip-knot at one end and two smaller slip-knots at the other end.

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**Who acts:** Hare · **What happens:** take, make · **To what, where:** rope, large slip knot, one end

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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 (Hare), 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:pg75000:8:40
# text = So he took the rope and made a large slip-knot at one end and two smaller slip-knots at the other end.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	knot	knot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
18	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
19	slip	slip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	knots	knot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Hare | the rope |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | Hare *not said here* | a large slip knot |  |  | at one end and two smaller slip knots; at the other end |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset knot=Product |

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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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