Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 41

“Perhaps you can tell me, however, what sort of a creature Man is, as I am now hunting for one in order to kill and eat him.”

Who acts: you, Tiger · What happens: tell, be, hunt, kill, eat · To what, where: Tiger, sort, Bullock · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, Tiger), 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	_	5 tell	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 tell	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 however	punct
8	however	however	ADV	_	5 tell	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sort	punct
10	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	11 sort	det
11	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 Man	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Man	det
14	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Man	compound
15	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sort	nmod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sort	cop
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hunting	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 hunting	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 hunting	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 hunting	aux
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 hunting	advmod
22	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 tell	advcl
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 one	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 hunting	obl
25	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 kill	mark
26	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 in	fixed
27	to	to	PART	_	28 kill	mark
28	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 hunting	advcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 eat	cc
30	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 kill	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 eat	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	you		the Tiger = tiger		however, perhaps property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	present		what sort			of a creature Man	tree rules
3	hunt in a quote	present · progressive	the Tiger = tiger			now	for one	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for one=Theme
4	kill in a quote	to-infinitive	the Tiger = tiger not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	eat in a quote	infinitive	the Tiger = tiger not said here	Bullock				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 41