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title: I’d guard her fragrant body, Like white turquoise so rare. — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: I’d guard her fragrant body, Like white turquoise so rare. 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 2

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I’d guard her fragrant body, Like white turquoise so rare.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** have, guard · **To what, where:** fragrant body

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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:pg75000:27:2
# text = I’d guard her fragrant body, Like white turquoise so rare.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’d	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	guard	guard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	turquoise	turquoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **guard** | infinitive | I *not said here* | heart's fragrant body |  |  |  | like white turquoise | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Beneficiary |

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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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