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title: “And when he yells, the lions and tigers will know him to be a jacka… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: “And when he yells, the lions and tigers will know him to be a jackal, and fall upon him.” Who acts: dog, lions. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 87

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“And when he yells, the lions and tigers will know him to be a jackal, and fall upon him.”

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**Who acts:** dog, lions · **What happens:** yell, know, be, fall · **To what, where:** dog, jackal

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, lions), 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:pg65965:18:88
# text = “And when he yells, the lions and tigers will know him to be a jackal, and fall upon him.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	yells	yell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yell** *speech: express* *in a quote* | present | dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | future | the lions and tigers | dog |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the lions and tigers *not said here* | a jackal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | upon dog | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location |

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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:** «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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