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title: At the first sound of the music all the pillars in the room, with th… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: At the first sound of the music all the pillars in the room, with the exception of the one in which Baki was concealed, began a slow and stately dance, his pillar alone remaining firm and unshaken. Who acts: pillar. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Th
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 59

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At the first sound of the music all the pillars in the room, with the exception of the one in which Baki was concealed, began a slow and stately dance, his pillar alone remaining firm and unshaken.

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**Who acts:** pillar · **What happens:** conceal, begin, remain, except · **To what, where:** Baki, slow dance, first sound, one

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pillar), 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:pg75000:22:59
# text = At the first sound of the music all the pillars in the room, with the exception of the one in which Baki was concealed, began a slow and stately dance, his pillar alone remaining firm and unshaken.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	exception	exception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
23	Baki	Baki	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
27	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
32	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	parataxis	_	_
36	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
38	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	unshaken	unshaken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conceal** | past · passive |  | Baki |  |  |  | in the one | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in which=Location |
| 2 | **begin** | past |  | a slow dance |  | the first sound of the music and all pillars in the room and the exception of the one |  | Baki's pillar *parataxis* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality |
| 3 | **remain** | gerund | Baki's pillar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | firm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **except** |  |  | the one |  |  |  |  | nom exception «cognition transitive»: of=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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