--- title: They confined their attentions to the slaughter of deer, pigs, and o… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: They confined their attentions to the slaughter of deer, pigs, and other denizens of the forest, and were careful, whenever they came within sight or scent of any human being, to clear off as fast as they could from so dangerous a neighbourhood. Who acts: Tigers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tigers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:3:9 # text = They confined their attentions to the slaughter of deer, pigs, and other denizens of the forest, and were careful, whenever they came within sight or scent of any human being, to clear off as fast as they could from so dangerous a neighbourhood. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 confined confine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 attentions attention NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 slaughter slaughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 deer deer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 denizens denizen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 whenever whenever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 26 advmod _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 27 within within ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 scent scent NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 30 nmod _ _ 33 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 acl _ _ 34 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 clear clear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 parataxis _ _ 38 off off ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 as as ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 46 advmod _ _ 41 as as SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 44 from from ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 so so ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 parataxis _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 neighbourhood neighbourhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **confine** | past | Tigers *= tiger* | Tigers's attentions | | the slaughter of deer and pigs | | other denizens of the forest *parataxis* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent attention=Theme to slaughter=Destination | | 2 | **is** | past | | | | | | careful *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **come** | past | Tigers *= tiger* | | | | | within sight or scent of any; whenever *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | clear *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **attend** | | Tigers *= tiger* | | | | | | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **slaughter** | | | deer and pigs | | | | | nom slaughter «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/3/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/3/10/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Tiger and the Man.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/3/)