Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 17
So they agreed to separate for twenty-four hours, and to meet next day in the courtyard of the palace, each bringing some gift to the Emperor which would please him, and prove to him that they were men of no usual calibre.
Who acts: Thieves, each, gift · What happens: agree, separate, meet, bring, please, prove · To what, where: courtyard, gift, Emperor, line, men
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Three Thieves.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thieves, each, gift), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 agreed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 separate | mark |
| 5 | separate | separate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 agreed | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 hours | case |
| 7 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 four | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 twenty | punct |
| 9 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hours | nummod |
| 10 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 separate | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 meet | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 meet | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 meet | mark |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 separate | conj |
| 15 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 day | amod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meet | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 courtyard | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 courtyard | det |
| 19 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meet | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 courtyard | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bringing | punct |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 bringing | nsubj |
| 25 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 agreed | advcl |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 gift | det |
| 27 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bringing | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Emperor | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Emperor | det |
| 30 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 gift | nmod |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 please | nsubj |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 please | aux |
| 33 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 gift | acl:relcl |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 please | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 prove | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 prove | cc |
| 37 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 please | conj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 prove | obl |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 men | mark |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 men | nsubj |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 men | cop |
| 43 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 prove | obj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 calibre | case |
| 45 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 47 calibre | det |
| 46 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 calibre | amod |
| 47 | calibre | calibre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 men | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Thieves = thief | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | separate not said to happen | to-infinitive | Thieves = thief not said here | hour | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | Thieves = thief not said here | the courtyard of the palace | day | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | bring | gerund | each | some gift | the Emperor | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to emperor=Destination | |||
| 5 | please | would | some gift | line | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | prove | infinitive | some gift not said here | line | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | Thieves = thief | men | of no usual calibre | tree rules |
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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