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title: A woman sings to a man whose affection for her is waning: — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: A woman sings to a man whose affection for her is waning: Who acts: woman, affection. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Some Verses From Tibetan Love-songs., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, Some Verses From Tibetan Love-songs., sentence 1

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A woman sings to a man whose affection for her is waning:

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**Who acts:** woman, affection · **What happens:** sing, wane · **To what, where:** man

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Some Verses From Tibetan Love-songs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, affection), 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:pg75000:26:1
# text = A woman sings to a man whose affection for her is waning:
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	waning	wane	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | a woman |  | a man |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient |
| 2 | **wane** | present · progressive | affection for woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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