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title: I grow here by the roadside and spread my branches over the dusty hi… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: I grow here by the roadside and spread my branches over the dusty highway ready to give shelter to man and beast in their shade. Who acts: I, branches. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith., with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 38

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I grow here by the roadside and spread my branches over the dusty highway ready to give shelter to man and beast in their shade.

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**Who acts:** I, branches · **What happens:** grow, spread, give, shade · **To what, where:** branches, dusty highway, shelter, man

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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 (I, branches), 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:pg75000:4:38
# text = I grow here by the roadside and spread my branches over the dusty highway ready to give shelter to man and beast in their shade.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	roadside	roadside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	highway	highway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	TO	_	20	case	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | I |  |  | here |  | by the roadside | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by roadside=Location |
| 2 | **spread** | past | I *not said here* | my branches |  | the dusty highway |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme over highway=Destination |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | shelter | man in branches's shade and beast |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme to man=Recipient |
| 4 | **shade** |  | branches *= branch* |  |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state 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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