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title: As soon as he was dead Mother Raven remarked to herself that she had… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as he was dead Mother Raven remarked to herself that she had a great deal too much to do in looking after her family and household duties to think for a moment of following so absurd a custom as mourning for a dead bird for any period at all. Who acts: husband, Mother, moment. A sentence of 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 26

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As soon as he was dead Mother Raven remarked to herself that she had a great deal too much to do in looking after her family and household duties to think for a moment of following so absurd a custom as mourning for a dead bird for any period at all.

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**Who acts:** husband, Mother, moment · **What happens:** be, remark, have, do, look, think · **To what, where:** dead Mother Raven, Mother, great deal

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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, Mother, moment), 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:pg75000:24:26
# text = As soon as he was dead Mother Raven remarked to herself that she had a great deal too much to do in looking after her family and household duties to think for a moment of following so absurd a custom as mourning for a dead bird for any period at all.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	_
9	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	too	too	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	absurd	absurd	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	mourning	mourning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
47	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	49	det	_	_
49	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	at	at	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | husband | dead Mother Raven |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle |  | dead Mother Raven *not said here* | Mother |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient |
| 3 | **have** | past | Mother | a great deal |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  | after Mother's family and household duties |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | moment |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **follow** | gerund | a moment *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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