--- title: I first give it my milk, and later on, as you see, I encourage it to… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: I first give it my milk, and later on, as you see, I encourage it to browse upon the best of the herbage, whilst I gladly stint myself in order that it may have plenty of the best of everything. Who acts: I, you, power. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, power), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:4:65 # text = I first give it my milk, and later on, as you see, I encourage it to browse upon the best of the herbage, whilst I gladly stint myself in order that it may have plenty of the best of everything. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 advmod _ _ 3 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 10 on on ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 encourage encourage VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 browse browse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 21 upon upon ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 herbage herbage NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 whilst whilst SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 gladly gladly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 stint stint VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 32 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 31 obj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl _ _ 39 plenty plenty NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 39 appos _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | I | power | | | | my milk *obj*; first *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient milk=Theme | | 2 | **see** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **encourage** | present | I | power | | | | | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **browse** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | power *not said here* | the best of the herbage | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **stint** | present | I | myself | | order | | gladly *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **have** | may | power | plenty | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/4/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/4/66/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Good Faith.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/4/)