Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 41
The Head Cook and all the Under Cooks, the Head Chamberlain and all the Under Chamberlains, the Head Usher and all the Under Ushers, and all the officials of lower degree, were thrown into a dreadful state of confusion and alarm at the event.
Who acts: Head Usher · What happens: throw · To what, where: officials, dreadful state, Head Cook
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 Usher), 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 | 3 Cook | det |
| 2 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Cook | compound |
| 3 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Cooks | cc |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 Cooks | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Cooks | det |
| 7 | Under | Under | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Cooks | compound |
| 8 | Cooks | Cook | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 Cook | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Chamberlain | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Chamberlain | det |
| 11 | Head | Head | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Chamberlain | compound |
| 12 | Chamberlain | Chamberlain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Cook | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Chamberlains | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 Chamberlains | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Chamberlains | det |
| 16 | Under | Under | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Chamberlains | compound |
| 17 | Chamberlains | Chamberlain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 Chamberlain | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Usher | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Usher | det |
| 20 | Head | Head | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Usher | compound |
| 21 | Usher | Usher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Cook | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Ushers | cc |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 Ushers | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Ushers | det |
| 25 | Under | Under | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Ushers | compound |
| 26 | Ushers | usher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Usher | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 thrown | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 thrown | cc |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 officials | det:predet |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 officials | det |
| 31 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 degree | case |
| 33 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 degree | amod |
| 34 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 officials | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 officials | punct |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 thrown | aux:pass |
| 37 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 Usher | acl |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 state | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 state | det |
| 40 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 state | amod |
| 41 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 thrown | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 confusion | case |
| 43 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 state | nmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 alarm | cc |
| 45 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 state | conj |
| 46 | at | at | ADP | _ | 48 event | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 event | det |
| 48 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 thrown | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Cook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past · passive | the Head Usher and all Under Ushers not said here | all officials of lower degree | into a dreadful state of confusion and alarm result; at the event | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into state=Result |
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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