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title: “Kill and eat me,” he replied; “why, don’t you know that Man is much… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Kill and eat me,” he replied; “why, don’t you know that Man is much too clever to be killed and eaten by a Tiger? Who acts: Woodcutter, you, Man. 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 p
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 58

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“Kill and eat me,” he replied; “why, don’t you know that Man is much too clever to be killed and eaten by a Tiger?

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**Who acts:** Woodcutter, you, Man · **What happens:** kill, eat, reply, not do, know, be · **To what, where:** Woodcutter · **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 (Woodcutter, you, Man), 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:pg75000:3:58
# text = “Kill and eat me,” he replied; “why, don’t you know that Man is much too clever to be killed and eaten by a Tiger?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	much	much	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Woodcutter |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: ask* | past | Woodcutter |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Man |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **kill** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | Man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 8 | **eat** *in a quote* | participle | Man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a Tiger | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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