Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 5

And the third was able to eat his fill off a man’s plate during dinner without the man who was robbed, or his friend opposite, being able to detect where the victuals had gone to.

Who acts: third, victuals · What happens: be, eat off, rob, detect, go · To what, where: fill, man

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 (third, victuals), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 able	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 third	det
3	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 able	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 able	cop
5	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fill	nmod:poss
9	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	7 eat	compound:prt
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plate	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 man	case
14	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obl
15	during	during	ADP	_	16 dinner	case
16	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obl
17	without	without	ADP	_	19 man	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obl
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 robbed	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 robbed	aux:pass
22	robbed	rob	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 man	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 opposite	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 opposite	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 friend	nmod:poss
26	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 opposite	compound
27	opposite	opposite	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 robbed	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 able	punct
29	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 able	cop
30	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 opposite	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 detect	mark
32	detect	detect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 able	xcomp
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 gone	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 victuals	det
35	victuals	victual	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 gone	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 gone	aux
37	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 detect	advcl
38	to	to	PART	_	37 gone	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the third			able property	tree rules
2	eat off	to-infinitive	the third not said here	theft's fill	during dinner	without the man; a man's plate obl	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient
3	rob	past · passive		the man		friend opposite obj	tree rules
4	is	gerund				able property	tree rules
5	detect	to-infinitive					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	go	past · perfect	the victuals				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 5