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title: After watching him for some time the Tiger emerged from the jungle,… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: After watching him for some time the Tiger emerged from the jungle, and going up to the Man, he asked what sort of an animal he was. Who acts: attendant, 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 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 52

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After watching him for some time the Tiger emerged from the jungle, and going up to the Man, he asked what sort of an animal he was.

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**Who acts:** attendant, Tiger · **What happens:** watch, emerge, go up, ask, sort · **To what, where:** attendant, time, jungle, sort, animal

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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 (attendant, 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:pg75000:3:52
# text = After watching him for some time the Tiger emerged from the jungle, and going up to the Man, he asked what sort of an animal he was.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	emerged	emerge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	jungle	jungle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	24	det	_	_
24	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund | attendant *not said here* | attendant |  |  | time |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **emerge** | past | the Tiger | some time *not said here* |  | the jungle |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme |
| 3 | **go up** | gerund | attendant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Man | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | attendant | what sort of a animal |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sort=Recipient |
| 5 | **sort** |  |  | a animal |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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