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title: His two brothers and his mother tried to reason with him and to pers… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: His two brothers and his mother tried to reason with him and to persuade him to remember the words of his dying father, but with no avail; and finally, one fine morning, in spite of their prayers and entreaties, he set off alone on his search. Who acts: two brothers, neighbourhood, brothers. A sente
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 17

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His two brothers and his mother tried to reason with him and to persuade him to remember the words of his dying father, but with no avail; and finally, one fine morning, in spite of their prayers and entreaties, he set off alone on his search.

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**Who acts:** two brothers, neighbourhood, brothers · **What happens:** try, persuade, remember, die, set off, word · **To what, where:** neighbourhood, words, search, dying father, prayers

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two brothers, neighbourhood, brothers), 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:pg75000:3:17
# text = His two brothers and his mother tried to reason with him and to persuade him to remember the words of his dying father, but with no avail; and finally, one fine morning, in spite of their prayers and entreaties, he set off alone on his search.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	TO	_	9	case	_	_
9	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	persuade	persuade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	avail	avail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
34	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
47	off	off	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	_
48	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
49	on	on	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | neighbourhood's two brothers and neighbourhood's mother |  |  |  | morning | to reason with neighbourhood | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **persuade** | to-infinitive | neighbourhood's two brothers and neighbourhood's mother *not said here* | neighbourhood |  |  |  | with no avail | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result |
| 3 | **remember** | to-infinitive | neighbourhood *not said here* | the words of neighbourhood's dying father |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 4 | **die** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **set off** | past | neighbourhood |  |  | neighbourhood's search |  | alone *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **word** |  |  | neighbourhood's dying father |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **spite** |  |  | brothers's prayers and entreaties |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **pray** |  | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **search** |  | neighbourhood |  |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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