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title: And when I reproached him for his bad faith, he replied that he did… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: And when I reproached him for his bad faith, he replied that he did not know what good faith was, and, in fact, did not believe that such a thing existed. Who acts: I, Tiger, good faith, thing. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 80

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And when I reproached him for his bad faith, he replied that he did not know what good faith was, and, in fact, did not believe that such a thing existed.

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**Who acts:** I, Tiger, good faith, thing · **What happens:** reproach, reply, not know, be, not believe, exist · **To what, where:** Tiger, fact · **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 (I, Tiger, good faith, thing), 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:pg75000:4:80
# text = And when I reproached him for his bad faith, he replied that he did not know what good faith was, and, in fact, did not believe that such a thing existed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reproached	reproach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	ccomp	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	believe	believe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	34	det:predet	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	existed	exist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reproach** | past | I | Tiger |  |  |  | for Tiger's bad faith | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for faith=Attribute |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Tiger |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | Tiger |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | past | good faith |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **believe** | past · do-support |  |  |  | fact |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **exist** | participle | such thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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