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title: “Pull, all of you,” called out the Hare, and so saying he let go of… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Pull, all of you,” called out the Hare, and so saying he let go of the end of the rope and the Kyang galloped off dragging the Wolf and the Fox after him. Who acts: you, Hare, Kyang. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and t
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 52

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“Pull, all of you,” called out the Hare, and so saying he let go of the end of the rope and the Kyang galloped off dragging the Wolf and the Fox after him.

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**Who acts:** you, Hare, Kyang · **What happens:** pull, call out, say, let, go, gallop off · **To what, where:** all, 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 (you, Hare, Kyang), 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:pg75000:8:52
# text = “Pull, all of you,” called out the Hare, and so saying he let go of the end of the rope and the Kyang galloped off dragging the Wolf and the Fox after him.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Pull	pull	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Kyang	Kyang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
30	off	off	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	dragging	drag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
37	after	after	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | all of you |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |
| 2 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the Hare *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **let** | past | Hare |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive | Hare *not said here* |  |  |  | of the end of the rope |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of end=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **gallop off** | past | the Kyang |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **drag** | gerund | the Kyang *not said here* | the Wolf and the Fox |  |  | after Fox |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=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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