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title: Telling someone's stories keeps them alive in people's memories. — Promises, memory and keeping each other safe · tree and pragmatics
description: Telling someone's stories keeps them alive in people's memories. Who acts: Telling. A sentence of the lesson «Promises, memory and keeping each other safe» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Promises, memory and keeping each other safe, sentence 13

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Telling someone's stories keeps them alive in people's memories.

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**Who acts:** Telling · **What happens:** tell, keep · **To what, where:** stories · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises, memory and keeping each other safe» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Telling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:079-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe.lesson:13
# text = Telling someone's stories keeps them alive in people's memories.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 079-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | someone's stories |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 2 | **keep** | present | Telling | stories *= story* |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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