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title: I shall ever remain your servant, remember your assistance, and help… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I shall ever remain your servant, remember your assistance, and help you throughout life in all possible ways. Who acts: I, your. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 65

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I shall ever remain your servant, remember your assistance, and help you throughout life in all possible ways.

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**Who acts:** I, your · **What happens:** remain, remember, help, assist · **To what, where:** servant, assistance, you, possible ways

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, your), 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:pg7128:14:65
# text = I shall ever remain your servant, remember your assistance, and help you throughout life in all possible ways.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
19	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | shall | I | your servant |  |  | ever |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme servant=Attribute |
| 2 | **remember** | infinitive | I *not said here* | your assistance |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  | you | all possible ways | throughout life |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **assist** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom assistance «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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