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title: “Beware how you hunt Man, young Tiger,” replied the old Elephant; “h… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Beware how you hunt Man, young Tiger,” replied the old Elephant; “he is a faithless and dangerous animal. Who acts: you, old Elephant, 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 pra
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 42

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“Beware how you hunt Man, young Tiger,” replied the old Elephant; “he is a faithless and dangerous animal.

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**Who acts:** you, old Elephant, Bullock · **What happens:** beware, hunt, reply, be · **To what, where:** young Tiger, Man, faithless animal · **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, old Elephant, 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:pg75000:3:42
# text = “Beware how you hunt Man, young Tiger,” replied the old Elephant; “he is a faithless and dangerous animal.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Beware	beware	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
12	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	faithless	faithless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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* | infinitive |  | young Tiger |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **hunt** *in a quote* | present | you | Man |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the old Elephant |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Bullock | a faithless animal |  |  |  |  | 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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