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title: While I was young and strong he cared for me and valued me highly; b… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: While I was young and strong he cared for me and valued me highly; but as soon as I became old and weak, and was no longer able to do his work, he turned me out into this wild jungle to seek my food as best I might, and gave no thought for me in my old age. Who acts: I, Bullock. A sentence of «Folk 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 30

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While I was young and strong he cared for me and valued me highly; but as soon as I became old and weak, and was no longer able to do his work, he turned me out into this wild jungle to seek my food as best I might, and gave no thought for me in my old age.

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**Who acts:** I, Bullock · **What happens:** be, care, value, become, do, turn out · **To what, where:** me, work, wild jungle, food, thought, old age

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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 (I, Bullock), 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:pg75000:3:30
# text = While I was young and strong he cared for me and valued me highly; but as soon as I became old and weak, and was no longer able to do his work, he turned me out into this wild jungle to seek my food as best I might, and gave no thought for me in my old age.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cared	care	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	valued	value	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	no	no	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
30	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
38	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
40	into	into	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
42	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
46	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	as	as	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	45	parataxis	_	_
50	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
55	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	56	det	_	_
56	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
57	for	for	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	54	obl	_	_
59	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
60	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
61	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **care** | past | Bullock |  |  |  |  | for me | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for i=Theme |
| 4 | **value** | past | Bullock *not said here* | me |  |  |  | highly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 5 | **become** | past | I |  |  |  |  | old, soon *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able, long *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Bullock's work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 8 | **turn out** | past | Bullock | me |  | this wild jungle |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme |
| 9 | **seek** | to-infinitive | Bullock *not said here* | my food |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 10 | **give** | past | I *not said here* | no thought |  |  | in my old age | for me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thought=Theme for i=Asset |
| 11 | **work** |  | Bullock |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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