Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 50
When the three Thieves were admitted to the Emperor’s presence, they went in together and made a simultaneous obeisance before the Emperor’s throne.
Who acts: Thieves · What happens: admit, go, make · To what, where: three Thieves, presence, simultaneous obeisance
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 (Thieves), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 admitted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Thieves | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 Thieves | nummod |
| 4 | Thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 admitted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 admitted | aux:pass |
| 6 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 presence | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Emperor | det |
| 9 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 presence | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Emperor | case |
| 11 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 admitted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 admitted | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 together | case |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 went | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 obeisance | det |
| 20 | simultaneous | simultaneous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 obeisance | amod |
| 21 | obeisance | obeisance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 throne | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Emperor | det |
| 24 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 throne | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Emperor | case |
| 26 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 admitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admit speech: other | past · passive | the three Thieves | the Emperor's presence | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to presence=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Thieves = thief | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in together=Location | |||||
| 3 | make | past | Thieves = thief not said here | a simultaneous obeisance | before the Emperor's throne | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset obeisance=Product |
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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