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title: Kicking this rock three times with his right foot, he pronounced the… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Kicking this rock three times with his right foot, he pronounced the magic words, and as he said them for the third time two rocky doors flew open, disclosing a cave inside. Who acts: Baki, two rocky doors. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story o
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 75

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Kicking this rock three times with his right foot, he pronounced the magic words, and as he said them for the third time two rocky doors flew open, disclosing a cave inside.

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**Who acts:** Baki, two rocky doors · **What happens:** kick, pronounce, say, fly, disclose · **To what, where:** rock, magic words, words, third time, cave · **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 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, two rocky doors), 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:pg75000:22:75
# text = Kicking this rock three times with his right foot, he pronounced the magic words, and as he said them for the third time two rocky doors flew open, disclosing a cave inside.
1	Kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
27	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	disclosing	disclose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick** | gerund | Baki *not said here* | this rock |  |  | time | with Baki's right foot | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rock=Patient with foot=Instrument |
| 2 | **pronounce** | past | Baki | the magic words |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Baki | words *= word* |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 4 | **fly** | past | two rocky doors | the third time *not said here* |  |  |  | open *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme |
| 5 | **disclose** | gerund | Baki *not said here* | a cave |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cave=Topic |

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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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