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title: Why, then, should not I be able to kill and eat Man also?” — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Why, then, should not I be able to kill and eat Man also?” Who acts: I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 15

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Why, then, should not I be able to kill and eat Man also?”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not be, kill, eat · **To what, where:** Man

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg75000:3:15
# text = Why, then, should not I be able to kill and eat Man also?”
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	also	also	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | should | I |  |  |  | then | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **eat** | infinitive | I *not said here* | Man |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |

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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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