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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 27

Shortly afterwards he was summoned to the Emperor’s presence, and when he knelt down to kow-tow before His Majesty, it was observed that he had no soles to his boots.

Who acts: line · What happens: summon, kneel down, observe, have · To what, where: line, Majesty, tow, soles

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 (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

advmodadvmodnsubjaux:passcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctccadvmodnsubjadvclcompound:prtcasecompoundpunctoblcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubj:passaux:passconjmarknsubjccompdetobjcasenmod:possnmodpunctrootShortlyADVafterwardsADVhePRONwasAUXsummonedVERBtoADPtheDETEmperorPROPN’sPARTpresenceNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVhePRONkneltVERBdownADPtoADPkowNOUN-PUNCTtowNOUNbeforeADPHisPRONMajestyPROPN,PUNCTitPRONwasAUXobservedVERBthatSCONJhePRONhadVERBnoDETsolesNOUNtoADPhisPRONbootsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ShortlyshortlyADV_2 afterwardsadvmod
2afterwardsafterwardsADV_5 summonedadvmod
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 summonednsubj
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 summonedaux:pass
5summonedsummonVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
6totoADP_10 presencecase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 Emperordet
8EmperorEmperorPROPNNumber=Sing10 presencenmod:poss
9’s'sPART_8 Emperorcase
10presencepresenceNOUNNumber=Sing5 summonedobl
11,,PUNCT_27 observedpunct
12andandCCONJ_27 observedcc
13whenwhenADVPronType=Int15 kneltadvmod
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 kneltnsubj
15kneltkneelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 observedadvcl
16downdownADP_15 kneltcompound:prt
17totoADP_20 towcase
18kowkowNOUNNumber=Sing20 towcompound
19--PUNCT_18 kowpunct
20towtowNOUNNumber=Sing15 kneltobl
21beforebeforeADP_23 Majestycase
22HishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 Majestynmod:poss
23MajestyMajestyPROPNNumber=Sing15 kneltobl
24,,PUNCT_15 kneltpunct
25ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 observednsubj:pass
26wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 observedaux:pass
27observedobserveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass5 summonedconj
28thatthatSCONJ_30 hadmark
29hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 hadnsubj
30hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 observedccomp
31nonoDETPronType=Neg32 solesdet
32solessoleNOUNNumber=Plur30 hadobj
33totoADP_35 bootscase
34hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs35 bootsnmod:poss
35bootsbootNOUNNumber=Plur32 solesnmod
36..PUNCT_5 summonedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1summonpast · passivelineto the Emperor's presence; afterwards propertyvn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2kneel downpastlineline's Majestyto kow towvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before majesty=Location
3observepast · passivetowtree rules
4havepastlineno solesto line's bootsvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sole=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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