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title: [2] But I am preserving such of these as appear to me to possess any… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: [2] But I am preserving such of these as appear to me to possess any scientific interest. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Love Song., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, Love Song., sentence 11

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\[2\] But I am preserving such of these as appear to me to possess any scientific interest.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** preserve, appear, possess · **To what, where:** me, scientific interest

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Love Song.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg75000:27:11
# text = [2] But I am preserving such of these as appear to me to possess any scientific interest.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	preserving	preserve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	nsubj	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	7	xcomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	as	a	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	scientific	scientific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **preserve** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  | 2 *discourse*; such *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **appear** | present |  |  | me |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **possess** | to-infinitive |  | any scientific interest |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot interest=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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