Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 58
He at once sent orders for his Prime Minister to be released, and handed over to him the soles of his boots, and told him to watch them more carefully for the future.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: send, release, hand over, tell, watch · To what, where: orders, soles, Emperor · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Emperor), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 4 sent | mark |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 sent | advmod |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Minister | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Minister | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 9 Minister | compound |
| 9 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 released | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 released | aux:pass |
| 12 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sent | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 handed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 handed | cc |
| 15 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 released | conj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 handed | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 handed | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 soles | det |
| 20 | soles | sole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 handed | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 boots | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 boots | nmod:poss |
| 23 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 soles | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 told | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 told | cc |
| 26 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 told | iobj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 watch | mark |
| 29 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 told | xcomp |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 watch | obj |
| 31 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 carefully | advmod |
| 32 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 29 watch | advmod |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 future | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 future | det |
| 35 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 watch | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Emperor | orders | for Emperor's Prime Minister; once property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | |||
| 2 | release | to-infinitive · passive | Emperor not said here | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING» | |||||
| 3 | hand over | participle | Emperor not said here | the soles of Emperor's boots | Emperor | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sole=Theme to he=Destination | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Emperor not said here | Emperor | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | watch not said to happen | to-infinitive | Emperor not said here | soles = sole | for the future; carefully property | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Location for future=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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