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title: "You must be father and mother both, And uncle, all in one; God know… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "You must be father and mother both, And uncle, all in one; God knows what will become of them When I am dead and gone." Who acts: You, God, brother. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 40

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"You must be father and mother both, And uncle, all in one; God knows what will become of them When I am dead and gone."

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**Who acts:** You, God, brother · **What happens:** be, know, become · **To what, where:** father · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, God, brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:25:40
# text = "You must be father and mother both, And uncle, all in one; God knows what will become of them When I am dead and gone."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	both	both	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | must | You | father and mother and uncle |  |  |  | both *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **become** *in a quote* | future |  |  |  |  |  | of Children *= child* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | brother |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* |  | brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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