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title: Can such conduct as that be called good faith? — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Can such conduct as that be called good faith? Who acts: such conduct. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 45

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Can such conduct as that be called good faith?

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**Who acts:** such conduct · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** such conduct · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (such conduct), 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:pg75000:4:45
# text = Can such conduct as that be called good faith?
1	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | infinitive · passive | such conduct *not said here* | such conduct |  |  |  | good faith *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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