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title: While the Calf is young and tender, I do all in my power to nourish… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: While the Calf is young and tender, I do all in my power to nourish and care for it. Who acts: Calf, I. 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 64

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While the Calf is young and tender, I do all in my power to nourish and care for it.

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**Who acts:** Calf, I · **What happens:** be, do, nourish, care · **To what, where:** power

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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 (Calf, I), 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:pg75000:4:64
# text = While the Calf is young and tender, I do all in my power to nourish and care for it.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Calf	Calf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	nourish	nourish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Calf |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the Calf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | present | I | my power |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality |
| 4 | **nourish** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my power *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **care** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for power | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |

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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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