Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 35
There were the Head Chamberlain and the Under Chamberlains, the Head Usher and the Under Ushers, the Head Waiter and the Under Waiters, and many other officials of minor degree.
Who acts: Head Chamberlain · What happens: be
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 (Head Chamberlain), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Chamberlain | det |
| 4 | Head | Head | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Chamberlain | compound |
| 5 | Chamberlain | Chamberlain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 were | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Chamberlains | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Chamberlains | det |
| 8 | Under | Under | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Chamberlains | compound |
| 9 | Chamberlains | Chamberlain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 Chamberlain | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Usher | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Usher | det |
| 12 | Head | Head | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Usher | compound |
| 13 | Usher | Usher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Chamberlain | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Ushers | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Ushers | det |
| 16 | Under | Under | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Ushers | compound |
| 17 | Ushers | usher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Usher | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Waiter | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Waiter | det |
| 20 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Waiter | compound |
| 21 | Waiter | Waiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Usher | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Waiters | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Waiters | det |
| 24 | Under | Under | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Waiters | compound |
| 25 | Waiters | Waiter | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 Chamberlain | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 officials | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 officials | cc |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 officials | amod |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 officials | amod |
| 30 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 degree | case |
| 32 | minor | minor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 degree | amod |
| 33 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 officials | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the Head Chamberlain and the Under Chamberlains and the Head Usher and the Under Ushers and the Head Waiter and the Under Waiters | there | many other officials of minor degree nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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