Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 16

“Tell them they won’t have long to wait now,” said Father Jackal; “the Tiger will probably be home very soon, and we shall all be eating hot Tiger’s meat before long.”

Who acts: children, Father, we · What happens: tell, not have, wait, say, be, eat · To what, where: children, meat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Jackals and the Tiger.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, Father, we), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
5	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 have	advmod
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Tell	ccomp
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 have	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 wait	mark
10	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 long	advcl
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 wait	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
16	Jackal	Jackal	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Father	flat
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 Tiger	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 Tiger	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Tiger	det
20	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	parataxis
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 home	aux
22	probably	probably	ADV	_	24 home	advmod
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 home	cop
24	home	home	ADV	_	20 Tiger	advmod
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 soon	advmod
26	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 home	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 eating	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 eating	cc
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 eating	nsubj
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 eating	aux
31	all	all	ADV	_	33 eating	advmod
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 eating	aux
33	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 Tiger	acl
34	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Tiger	amod
35	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 meat	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 Tiger	case
37	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 eating	obj
38	before	before	ADV	_	39 long	advmod
39	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 eating	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 eating	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			children = child			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not have in a quote	future	children = child				long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	wait in a quote	to-infinitive	children = child not said here			now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Father				the Tiger parataxis	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is in a quote	future					home, probably, soon property	tree rules
6	eat in a quote	shall · progressive	we	hot Tiger's meat			all, long property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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.

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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 16