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title: Does it remember its old mother with gratitude, and fend for her in… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Does it remember its old mother with gratitude, and fend for her in her old age? Who acts: power. 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 67

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Does it remember its old mother with gratitude, and fend for her in her old age?

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**Who acts:** power · **What happens:** remember, fend · **To what, where:** old mother, old age

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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 (power), 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:pg75000:4:67
# text = Does it remember its old mother with gratitude, and fend for her in her old age?
1	Does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fend	fend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | present · do-support | power | power's old mother |  |  |  | with gratitude | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent mother=Theme |
| 2 | **fend** | infinitive | power *not said here* |  |  |  | in Calf's old age | for Calf | tree rules |

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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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