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title: “Well, perhaps you can tell me what sort of an animal Man is, for I… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well, perhaps you can tell me what sort of an animal Man is, for I am just going out to find and kill one.” Who acts: you, 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 c
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 25

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“Well, perhaps you can tell me what sort of an animal Man is, for I am just going out to find and kill one.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** tell, be, go out, find, kill · **To what, where:** me, sort, one · **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 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 (you, 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:pg75000:3:25
# text = “Well, perhaps you can tell me what sort of an animal Man is, for I am just going out to find and kill one.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	10	det	_	_
10	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
22	out	out	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | can | you |  | me |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | what sort |  |  |  | of a animal Man | tree rules |
| 3 | **go out** *in a quote* | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **kill** *in a quote* | infinitive | I *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

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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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