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title: “I am much interested in your story, Sister Deer, and would gladly h… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am much interested in your story, Sister Deer, and would gladly help you if I could; but I am bound to answer you honestly in accordance with my own experience of life. Who acts: branches, my. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Fait
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 36

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“I am much interested in your story, Sister Deer, and would gladly help you if I could; but I am bound to answer you honestly in accordance with my own experience of life.

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**Who acts:** branches, my · **What happens:** be, help, answer, experience · **To what, where:** story, you, accordance, life

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (branches, my), 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:pg75000:4:36
# text = “I am much interested in your story, Sister Deer, and would gladly help you if I could; but I am bound to answer you honestly in accordance with my own experience of life.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	interested	interested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Sister	Sister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	bound	bound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	accordance	accordance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | branches *= branch* |  |  | your story |  | interested *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** *in a quote* | would | branches *= branch* *not said here* |  | you |  |  | gladly *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | branches *= branch* |  |  |  |  | bound *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | branches *= branch* *not said here* |  | you | accordance |  | with my own experience of life; honestly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
| 5 | **experience** *in a quote* |  | my | life |  |  |  |  | nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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