Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 28
The Emperor, thinking that the Minister had committed this serious breach of etiquette on purpose, fell into a violent passion, and ordered him to be imprisoned at once.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: think, commit, fall, order, imprison, breach · To what, where: Minister, violent passion, Emperor, etiquette · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Emperor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Emperor | acl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 committed | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Minister | det |
| 7 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 committed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 committed | aux |
| 9 | committed | commit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thinking | ccomp |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 breach | det |
| 11 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 breach | amod |
| 12 | breach | breach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 committed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 etiquette | case |
| 14 | etiquette | etiquette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 breach | nmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 purpose | case |
| 16 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 etiquette | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Emperor | punct |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 passion | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 passion | det |
| 21 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 passion | amod |
| 22 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ordered | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ordered | cc |
| 25 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fell | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ordered | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 imprisoned | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 imprisoned | aux:pass |
| 29 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 ordered | xcomp |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 once | case |
| 31 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 29 imprisoned | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | the Emperor not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | commit | past · perfect · passive | the Minister | this serious breach of etiquette on purpose obj | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset breach=Goal | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | the Emperor | into a violent passion result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into passion=Result | ||||
| 4 | order | past | the Emperor not said here | Emperor | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | imprison not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the Emperor not said here | vn confine-92 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 6 | breach | etiquette on purpose | nom breach «act transitive»: of=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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