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title: “Oh, I am all right, my boy,” replied Father Tortoise; “tell Mother… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, I am all right, my boy,” replied Father Tortoise; “tell Mother she need not trouble about me. Who acts: right boy, Mother. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 12

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“Oh, I am all right, my boy,” replied Father Tortoise; “tell Mother she need not trouble about me.

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**Who acts:** right boy, Mother · **What happens:** be, reply, tell, not need · **To what, where:** Father, Mother, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (right boy, Mother), 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:pg75000:21:12
# text = “Oh, I am all right, my boy,” replied Father Tortoise; “tell Mother she need not trouble about me.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
13	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
19	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
23	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | my right boy *= boy* |  |  |  |  | all, right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | my right boy | Father |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent father=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | my right boy *not said here* |  | Mother |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **need** *in a quote* | present | Mother | trouble |  |  |  | about my right boy *= boy* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot trouble=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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