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title: Going round to the back of the rock, he found himself face to face w… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Going round to the back of the rock, he found himself face to face with another great rock standing by itself. Who acts: Baki, great rock. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 74

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Going round to the back of the rock, he found himself face to face with another great rock standing by itself.

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**Who acts:** Baki, great rock · **What happens:** go round, find, stand · **To what, where:** back, Baki

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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 (Baki, great rock), 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:pg75000:22:74
# text = Going round to the back of the rock, he found himself face to face with another great rock standing by itself.
1	Going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
2	round	round	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go round** | gerund | Baki *not said here* |  |  | the back of the rock |  | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to back=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | Baki | Baki |  |  |  | face *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme face=Attribute |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | another great rock *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by face | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by itself=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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