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title: As I was approaching my den, after a long night’s hunting, one of th… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: As I was approaching my den, after a long night’s hunting, one of the creatures was actually sitting on the roof, looking out for me, and as I got close up I heard him tell his young ones that they were to have hot Tiger’s meat for supper. Who acts: I, hunting, Father, long night. A sentence of «Fol
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 23

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As I was approaching my den, after a long night’s hunting, one of the creatures was actually sitting on the roof, looking out for me, and as I got close up I heard him tell his young ones that they were to have hot Tiger’s meat for supper.

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**Who acts:** I, hunting, Father, long night · **What happens:** approach, sit, look out, get up, hear, tell · **To what, where:** den, roof, hunting, young ones, meat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Jackals and the Tiger.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, hunting, Father, long night), 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:pg75000:14:23
# text = As I was approaching my den, after a long night’s hunting, one of the creatures was actually sitting on the roof, looking out for me, and as I got close up I heard him tell his young ones that they were to have hot Tiger’s meat for supper.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
35	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
36	up	up	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
46	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	ccomp	_	_
49	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	’s	's	PART	POS	_	50	case	_	_
52	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | past · progressive | I | my den |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent den=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past · progressive | a long night's hunting |  |  | the roof |  | actually *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on roof=Location |
| 3 | **look out** | gerund | a long night's hunting *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for me | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for i=Theme |
| 4 | **get up** | past | I |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **hear** | past | I | hunting |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | hunting *not said here* | hunting's young ones |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **have** *not said to happen* | past | Father | hot Tiger's meat |  |  |  | for supper | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |
| 8 | **hunt** |  | a long night |  |  |  |  |  | nom hunting «act transitive»: poss=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:** «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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