Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 18
Accordingly, they parted in different directions, and the following day at noon, they met together in the courtyard of the palace, and each one proceeded to relate his adventures during the preceding twenty-four hours.
Who acts: Thieves, one, line · What happens: part, follow, meet, proceed, relate, precede · To what, where: different directions, courtyard, adventures
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, one, line), 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 4 parted | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Accordingly | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 parted | nsubj |
| 4 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 directions | case |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 directions | amod |
| 7 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 parted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 day | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 day | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 11 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 day | amod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 parted | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 noon | case |
| 14 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 day | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 met | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 met | nsubj |
| 17 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 parted | conj |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 met | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 courtyard | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 courtyard | det |
| 21 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 met | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 courtyard | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 proceeded | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 proceeded | cc |
| 27 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 one | det |
| 28 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 proceeded | nsubj |
| 29 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 parted | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 relate | mark |
| 31 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 proceeded | xcomp |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 33 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 relate | obj |
| 34 | during | during | ADP | _ | 40 hours | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 hours | det |
| 36 | preceding | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 hours | nsubj |
| 37 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 four | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 twenty | punct |
| 39 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 hours | nummod |
| 40 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 relate | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 parted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part | past | Thieves = thief | different directions | day | accordingly property | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | meet | past | Thieves = thief | the courtyard of the palace | together property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | proceed | past | each one | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | relate | to-infinitive | each one not said here | line's adventures | hour | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme | |||
| 6 | precede | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | adventure | line | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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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