Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 33

The other two Thieves, on hearing this story, congratulated their comrade on his successful manœuvre, and the third Thief proceeded to relate his adventures as follows:

Who acts: other two Thieves, third Thief, Emperor · What happens: hear, congratulate, proceed, relate, follow, adventure · To what, where: story, comrade, successful manœuvre, 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 (other two Thieves, third Thief, 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	4 Thieves	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Thieves	amod
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 Thieves	nummod
4	Thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 congratulated	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hearing	punct
6	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 hearing	mark
7	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 Thieves	acl
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hearing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Thieves	punct
11	congratulated	congratulate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 comrade	nmod:poss
13	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 congratulated	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 manœuvre	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 manœuvre	nmod:poss
16	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 manœuvre	amod
17	manœuvre	manœuvre	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 congratulated	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 proceeded	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 proceeded	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Thief	det
21	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 Thief	amod
22	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 proceeded	nsubj
23	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 congratulated	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 relate	mark
25	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 proceeded	xcomp
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 adventures	nmod:poss
27	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 relate	obj
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 follows	mark
29	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 relate	advcl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 congratulated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	gerund	the other two Thieves not said here	this story		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
2	congratulate	past	the other two Thieves	Thieves's comrade	Emperor's successful manœuvre	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comrade=Theme
3	proceed	past	the third Thief			vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	relate	to-infinitive	the third Thief not said here	Emperor's adventures		vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme
5	follow	present	the third Thief not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	adventure		Emperor			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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 33

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 33