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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 58

“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 · What happens: kill, eat, reply, not do, know, be · To what, where: Woodcutter · 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 (Woodcutter, you, Man), 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

punctccompccconjobjpunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctadvmodpunctccompadvmodnsubjparataxismarknsubjcopadvmodadvmodccompmarkaux:passxcompccconjcasedetoblpunctroot“PUNCTKillVERBandCCONJeatVERBmePRON,PUNCT”PUNCThePRONrepliedVERB;PUNCT“PUNCTwhyADV,PUNCTdoVERBn’tPARTyouPRONknowVERBthatSCONJManNOUNisAUXmuchADVtooADVcleverADJtoPARTbeAUXkilledVERBandCCONJeatenVERBbyADPaDETTigerPROPN?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_2 Killpunct
2KillkillVERBVerbForm=Inf9 repliedccomp
3andandCCONJ_4 eatcc
4eateatVERBVerbForm=Inf2 Killconj
5meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs4 eatobj
6,,PUNCT_2 Killpunct
7”"PUNCT_2 Killpunct
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 repliednsubj
9repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10;;PUNCT_14 dopunct
11“"PUNCT_14 dopunct
12whywhyADVPronType=Int14 doadvmod
13,,PUNCT_12 whypunct
14dodoVERBVerbForm=Inf9 repliedccomp
15n’tnotPARTPolarity=Neg14 doadvmod
16youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs17 knownsubj
17knowknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 doparataxis
18thatthatSCONJ_23 clevermark
19ManmanNOUNNumber=Sing23 clevernsubj
20isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin23 clevercop
21muchmuchADV_23 cleveradvmod
22tootooADV_23 cleveradvmod
23clevercleverADJDegree=Pos17 knowccomp
24totoPART_26 killedmark
25bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf26 killedaux:pass
26killedkillVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass23 cleverxcomp
27andandCCONJ_28 eatencc
28eateneatVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass26 killedconj
29bybyADP_31 Tigercase
30aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art31 Tigerdet
31TigerTigerPROPNNumber=Sing28 eatenobl
32??PUNCT_9 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1kill in a quoteinfinitivevn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2eat in a quoteinfinitiveWoodcuttervn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3reply speech: askpastWoodcuttervn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4not do in a quoteinfinitivevn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5know in a quotepresentyouvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6is in a quotepresentManclever propertytree rules
7kill in a quoteto-infinitive · passiveMan not said herevn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
8eat in a quoteparticipleMan not said hereby a Tigervn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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