--- title: “Tell them they won’t have long to wait now,” said Father Jackal; “t… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: “Tell them they won’t have long to wait now,” said Father Jackal; “the Tiger will probably be home very soon, and we shall all be eating hot Tiger’s meat before long.” Who acts: children, Father, we. 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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 (children, Father, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:14:16 # text = “Tell them they won’t have long to wait now,” said Father Jackal; “the Tiger will probably be home very soon, and we shall all be eating hot Tiger’s meat before long.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 iobj _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 6 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 8 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 11 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 16 Jackal Jackal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 “ " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Tiger Tiger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 21 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 22 probably probably ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 24 home home ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 25 very very ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 30 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 31 all all ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux _ _ 33 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 acl _ _ 34 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 Tiger Tiger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ’s 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 38 before before ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | children *= child* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | future | children *= child* | | | | | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wait** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | now | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Father | | | | | the Tiger *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | future | | | | | | home, probably, soon *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **eat** *in a quote* | shall · progressive | we | hot Tiger's meat | | | | all, long *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/14/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/14/17/) - ↑ back to [The Jackals and the Tiger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/14/)