Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 71
On hearing these words the three thieves consulted together for a few moments, and replied as follows:
What happens: hear, consult, reply, follow · To what, where: words, three 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: 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 replied | advcl |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hearing | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thieves | det |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 thieves | nummod |
| 7 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hearing | obj |
| 8 | consulted | consult | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 thieves | acl |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 consulted | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 moments | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 moments | det |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 moments | amod |
| 13 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 consulted | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 replied | cc |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 follows | mark |
| 18 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 replied | advcl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | this words | the three thieves obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | consult | participle | the three thieves not said here | moment | together property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | participle | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | follow | present | 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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