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title: By the side of this lake there arose a jagged cliff, and about half-… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: By the side of this lake there arose a jagged cliff, and about half-way up the cliff on a broad ledge he noticed an immense nest, in which appeared some young birds of unusual size. Who acts: word. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 60

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By the side of this lake there arose a jagged cliff, and about half-way up the cliff on a broad ledge he noticed an immense nest, in which appeared some young birds of unusual size.

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**Who acts:** word · **What happens:** arise, notice, appear · **To what, where:** jagged cliff, immense nest, young birds

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word), 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:pg75000:16:60
# text = By the side of this lake there arose a jagged cliff, and about half-way up the cliff on a broad ledge he noticed an immense nest, in which appeared some young birds of unusual size.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	jagged	jagged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ledge	ledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
34	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
35	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	unusual	unusual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past |  | a jagged cliff |  | there |  | by the side of this lake; half way up the cliff on a broad ledge *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cliff=Theme |
| 2 | **notice** | past | word | a immense nest |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nest=Stimulus |
| 3 | **appear** | past |  | some young birds of unusual size |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=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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