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title: It is my intention now to give myself up entirely to religious conte… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: It is my intention now to give myself up entirely to religious contemplation and no longer to molest you, so henceforth you are at liberty to run about as freely as you will without fear of me. Who acts: leaf, you. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 8

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It is my intention now to give myself up entirely to religious contemplation and no longer to molest you, so henceforth you are at liberty to run about as freely as you will without fear of me.

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**Who acts:** leaf, you · **What happens:** be, give up, molest, run about, fear · **To what, where:** intention, myself, you, liberty, me

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Cat and the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaf, you), 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:pg75000:6:8
# text = It is my intention now to give myself up entirely to religious contemplation and no longer to molest you, so henceforth you are at liberty to run about as freely as you will without fear of me.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
8	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	iobj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
10	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	contemplation	contemplation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	no	no	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	molest	molest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	liberty	liberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
29	about	about	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
35	without	without	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | leaf | my intention and liberty |  |  | now | my *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give up** | to-infinitive |  |  | myself |  |  | to religious contemplation | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent myself=Theme to contemplation=Recipient |
| 3 | **molest** | to-infinitive |  | you |  |  |  | long *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  | liberty |  | henceforth *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **run about** | to-infinitive | leaf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without fear of me; freely *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **fear** |  |  | me |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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