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title: “Beware of Man, young Tiger,” replied the Bullock; “he is a dangerou… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Beware of Man, young Tiger,” replied the Bullock; “he is a dangerous and a faithless creature. Who acts: you, Bullock. 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 26

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“Beware of Man, young Tiger,” replied the Bullock; “he is a dangerous and a faithless creature.

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**Who acts:** you, Bullock · **What happens:** beware, reply, be · **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, Bullock), 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:pg75000:3:26
# text = “Beware of Man, young Tiger,” replied the Bullock; “he is a dangerous and a faithless creature.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Beware	beware	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Bullock	Bullock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	faithless	faithless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beware** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Man and young Tiger | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Bullock |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Bullock |  |  |  |  | a faithless creature *conj*; dangerous *property* | tree rules |

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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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