Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 6

That animal is Man, and I warn you solemnly before I die to beware of Man, and on no account to try to hunt or to kill him.”

Who acts: animal, I · What happens: be, warn, die, beware, try, hunt · To what, where: Man, you, death

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 (animal, I), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Man	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Man	cop
4	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 warn	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 warn	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 warn	nsubj
8	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Man	acl:relcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 warn	obj
10	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	_	8 warn	advmod
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 die	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 die	nsubj
13	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 warn	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 beware	mark
15	beware	beware	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 die	xcomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Man	case
17	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 beware	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 account	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 account	cc
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 account	case
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 account	det
22	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Man	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 try	mark
24	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 account	acl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 hunt	mark
26	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 try	xcomp
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 kill	cc
28	to	to	PART	_	29 kill	mark
29	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 hunt	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 kill	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Man	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 Man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that animal	Man and no account		no account conj	tree rules
2	warn speech: warn	present	I	Man and no account not said here	you	solemnly property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	die	present	I				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	beware	to-infinitive	I not said here			of Man	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	try	to-infinitive	that animal not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	hunt not said to happen	to-infinitive	that animal not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	kill	to-infinitive	that animal not said here	death			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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 6

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 6