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title: Mother Raven, on hearing this, was greatly affected, and solemnly vo… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Mother Raven, on hearing this, was greatly affected, and solemnly vowed to carry out the wishes of her husband, and poor old Father Raven, getting into the nest, shortly after breathed his last. Who acts: husband. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 25

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Mother Raven, on hearing this, was greatly affected, and solemnly vowed to carry out the wishes of her husband, and poor old Father Raven, getting into the nest, shortly after breathed his last.

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**Who acts:** husband · **What happens:** hear, affect, vow, carry out, get, breathe · **To what, where:** this, Mother Raven, poor old Father Raven, wishes, nest, last

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Dislodged the Spider.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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:pg75000:24:25
# text = Mother Raven, on hearing this, was greatly affected, and solemnly vowed to carry out the wishes of her husband, and poor old Father Raven, getting into the nest, shortly after breathed his last.
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	affected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	vowed	vow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Raven	Raven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
37	breathed	breathe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **affect** | past · passive |  | Mother Raven |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **vow** | past |  | poor old Father Raven |  |  |  | solemnly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **carry out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the wishes of Mother's husband |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality |
| 5 | **get** | gerund |  |  |  | the nest |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into nest=Destination |
| 6 | **breathe** | past |  | husband's last |  |  |  | shortly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent last=Theme |
| 7 | **wish** |  | Mother's husband |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: of=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:** «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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