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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 18

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So he challenged the tiger, and said, “You are indeed a mighty full-grown tiger, but I am a Rájput, therefore let us fight.”

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**Who acts:** fool, You, us · **What happens:** challenge, say, grow, be, let, fight · **To what, where:** tiger, mighty full grown tiger, Rájput, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fool, You, us), 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:pg65965:27:19
# text = So he challenged the tiger, and said, “You are indeed a mighty full-grown tiger, but I am a Rájput, therefore let us fight.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	challenged	challenge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
15	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
16	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Rájput	Rájput	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
29	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **challenge** | past | fool | the tiger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | fool *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | You | a mighty full grown tiger |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | fool | a Rájput |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | fool *not said here* | us |  |  |  | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **fight** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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