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title: “I would gladly help you in the matter, Sister Deer, if I could; but… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “I would gladly help you in the matter, Sister Deer, if I could; but I must regard it from the point of view of my own experience in life. Who acts: old Buffalo, my. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith., with its dependency tree a
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 62

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“I would gladly help you in the matter, Sister Deer, if I could; but I must regard it from the point of view of my own experience in life.

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**Who acts:** old Buffalo, my · **What happens:** help, regard, point, view, experience · **To what, where:** you, matter, cud, point, view, own experience

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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 (old Buffalo, 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:pg75000:4:62
# text = “I would gladly help you in the matter, Sister Deer, if I could; but I must regard it from the point of view of my own experience in life.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Sister	Sister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	regard	regard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** *in a quote* | would | the old Buffalo *= buffalo* |  | you | the matter |  | gladly *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **regard** *in a quote* | must | the old Buffalo *= buffalo* | cud |  | the point of view of my own experience in life |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **point** *in a quote* |  |  | view of my own experience in life |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **view** *in a quote* |  |  | my own experience in life |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **experience** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  | life |  |  | nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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