Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 64
Having issued these various commands, the Emperor again summoned the three Thieves before him, and addressed them as follows:
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: have, issue, summon, address, follow · To what, where: issued various commands, three Thieves, Thieves
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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 summoned | advcl |
| 2 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 commands | amod |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 commands | det |
| 4 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 commands | amod |
| 5 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Having | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Emperor | det |
| 8 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 summoned | nsubj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 summoned | advmod |
| 10 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Thieves | det |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 Thieves | nummod |
| 13 | Thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 summoned | obj |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 summoned | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 addressed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 addressed | cc |
| 18 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 summoned | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 addressed | obj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 follows | mark |
| 21 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 addressed | advcl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the Emperor not said here | this issued various commands | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Patient | ||||
| 2 | issue | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | summon | past | the Emperor | the three Thieves | before gift; again | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Recipient | |||
| 4 | address | past | the Emperor not said here | Thieves = thief | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination | ||||
| 5 | follow | present | the Emperor not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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