--- title: “As a great mountain, with its cooling streams, Nourishes the little… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: “As a great mountain, with its cooling streams, Nourishes the little fields far down below, Do you, my lover, with a stream of love, Nourish the heart of her who loves you so.” Who acts: stream, Nourish heart. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stream, Nourish heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:26:2 # text = “As a great mountain, with its cooling streams, Nourishes the little fields far down below, Do you, my lover, with a stream of love, Nourish the heart of her who loves you so.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 As as ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 cooling cooling NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 streams stream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 12 Nourishes nourish VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 17 down down ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 below below ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 lover lover NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 Nourish Nourish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ _ 35 of of SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 38 loves love VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nourish** *in a quote* | present | | the little fields | | | | as a great mountain with mountain's cooling streams; below *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | present | | | you | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | | 3 | **heart** *in a quote* | | a stream of love | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **love** *in a quote* | present | the Nourish heart | you | | | | affection *nmod:poss* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/26/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/26/3/) - ↑ back to [Some Verses From Tibetan Love-songs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/26/)