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title: How is it I find you pacing here in front of your den instead of hun… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: How is it I find you pacing here in front of your den instead of hunting your prey as usual on the hillside?” Who acts: matter, I, you. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Hare and the Lions., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 35

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How is it I find you pacing here in front of your den instead of hunting your prey as usual on the hillside?”

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**Who acts:** matter, I, you · **What happens:** be, find, pace, hunt · **To what, where:** you, front, prey, hillside

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Hare and the Lions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter, I, you), 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:pg75000:10:35
# text = How is it I find you pacing here in front of your den instead of hunting your prey as usual on the hillside?”
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	pacing	pace	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hillside	hillside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | matter |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **pace** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | front of your den; here |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory |
| 4 | **hunt** | gerund | you *not said here* | your prey |  | the hillside |  | as usual | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prey=Theme on hillside=Location |

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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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