--- title: Whenever you hear people near you, you had better bawl out so as to… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Whenever you hear people near you, you had better bawl out so as to be heard by them: 'The wretched prince imprisoned me on the false charge of having killed his father, while it was a tiger that killed him. Who acts: you, people, wretched prince, false charge. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, people, wretched prince, false charge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7128:15:20 # text = Whenever you hear people near you, you had better bawl out so as to be heard by them: 'The wretched prince imprisoned me on the false charge of having killed his father, while it was a tiger that killed him. 1 Whenever whenever SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 near near ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 11 bawl bawl NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 out out ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 14 as as ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 wretched wretched ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 imprisoned imprison VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 false false ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 of of SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 aux _ _ 33 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 while while SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 parataxis _ _ 42 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 43 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 44 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | present | you | people | | | | near you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | | 2 | **have out** | past | you | better bawl | | | | out *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bawl=Patient | | 3 | **hear** | to-infinitive · passive | people | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **imprison** | past | the wretched prince | me | | the false charge | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme on charge=Destination | | 5 | **kill** | gerund · perfect | the false charge *not said here* | prince's father | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | past | bawl | a tiger | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **kill** | past | a tiger | prince | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | 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. **Text:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/21/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/)