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title: I fear that lurking at your back, Are demons red [13] to bring me en… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: I fear that lurking at your back, Are demons red [13] to bring me endless sorrow.” Who acts: I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Some Verses From Tibetan Love-songs., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, Some Verses From Tibetan Love-songs., sentence 10

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I fear that lurking at your back, Are demons red \[13\] to bring me endless sorrow.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** fear, lurk, be, bring · **To what, where:** back, demons, endless sorrow, me

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Some Verses From Tibetan Love-songs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg75000:26:10
# text = I fear that lurking at your back, Are demons red [13] to bring me endless sorrow.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fear	fear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	lurking	lurk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	demons	demon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
11	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lurk** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | your back |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at back=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | demons |  |  |  | red 13 *nmod* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | endless sorrow | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination sorrow=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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