Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 74
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 · What happens: go round, find, stand · To what, where: back, Baki
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.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 found | advcl |
| 2 | round | round | ADV | _ | 1 Going | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 back | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 back | det |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Going | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rock | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rock | det |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 back | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Going | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 face | case |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 face | nmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 rock | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 rock | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rock | amod |
| 19 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 face | nmod |
| 20 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 rock | acl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 itself | case |
| 22 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 standing | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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.
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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