🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 43

But after some time the Emperor, wearied by the confusion, and unable, in spite of everything, to make a satisfactory meal, gave orders that the whole of the Cooks and other attendants responsible for his table-service should be imprisoned, and that unless a satisfactory explanation of their negligence could be given before this evening they should be beheaded.

Who acts: confusion, Cooks, evening, Emperor, negligence · What happens: weary, make, give, imprison, behead, spite · To what, where: Emperor, satisfactory meal, orders, other attendants, satisfactory explanation, attendants

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 (confusion, Cooks, evening, Emperor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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