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title: The three young Tigers listened respectfully to the words of their d… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The three young Tigers listened respectfully to the words of their dying parent and promised to obey; and the elder brothers, who were obedient sons, were careful to follow his advice. Who acts: three, elder brothers. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 8

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The three young Tigers listened respectfully to the words of their dying parent and promised to obey; and the elder brothers, who were obedient sons, were careful to follow his advice.

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**Who acts:** three, elder brothers · **What happens:** listen, die, promise, obey, be, follow · **To what, where:** elder brothers, obedient sons, advice, dying parent

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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 (three, elder brothers), 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:pg75000:3:8
# text = The three young Tigers listened respectfully to the words of their dying parent and promised to obey; and the elder brothers, who were obedient sons, were careful to follow his advice.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Tigers	Tiger	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	respectfully	respectfully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	obedient	obedient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **listen** | past | the three | the elder brothers |  |  |  | to the words of Tigers's dying parent; young Tigers *nsubj*; respectfully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme |
| 2 | **die** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the three *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **obey** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the three *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the elder brothers | obedient sons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | the elder brothers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **follow** | to-infinitive | the elder brothers *not said here* | parent's advice |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
| 8 | **word** |  |  | Tigers's dying parent |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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