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title: After making a good meal himself off the deer’s flesh, he said to Mr… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: After making a good meal himself off the deer’s flesh, he said to Mrs. Jackal: Who acts: Tiger. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Jackals and the Tiger., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 8

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After making a good meal himself off the deer’s flesh, he said to Mrs. Jackal:

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**Who acts:** Tiger · **What happens:** make, say · **To what, where:** good meal, Mrs. · **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 (Tiger), 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:pg75000:14:8
# text = After making a good meal himself off the deer’s flesh, he said to Mrs. Jackal:
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	nmod	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	Jackal	Jackal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund | Tiger *not said here* | a good meal  Tiger |  |  |  | off the deer's flesh | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meal=Product |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tiger |  | Mrs. |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mrs.=Recipient |

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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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