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title: “Perhaps you can tell me, however, what sort of a creature Man is, a… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Perhaps you can tell me, however, what sort of a creature Man is, as I am now hunting for one in order to kill and eat him.” Who acts: you, Tiger. 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 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 41

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“Perhaps you can tell me, however, what sort of a creature Man is, as I am now hunting for one in order to kill and eat him.”

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**Who acts:** you, Tiger · **What happens:** tell, be, hunt, kill, eat · **To what, where:** Tiger, sort, Bullock · **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, 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:pg75000:3:41
# text = “Perhaps you can tell me, however, what sort of a creature Man is, as I am now hunting for one in order to kill and eat him.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	11	det	_	_
11	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	_
25	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	28	mark	_	_
26	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	fixed	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	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 |  | the Tiger *= tiger* |  |  | however, perhaps *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | what sort |  |  |  | of a creature Man | tree rules |
| 3 | **hunt** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the Tiger *= tiger* |  |  |  | now | for one | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for one=Theme |
| 4 | **kill** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Tiger *= tiger* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Tiger *= tiger* *not said here* | Bullock |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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