Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 77

The Chief Treasurer was much perturbed on receiving these orders, for owing to the enormous quantity of jewels and other objects in the Treasury, he foresaw that it would be a difficult matter to have the enumeration complete before evening.

Who acts: Treasurer, it · What happens: perturb, receive, owe, foresee, be, have · To what, where: Chief Treasurer, orders, Treasury, difficult matter, enumeration

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 (Treasurer, it), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Treasurer	det
2	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Treasurer	compound
3	Treasurer	Treasurer	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 perturbed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 perturbed	aux:pass
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 perturbed	advmod
6	perturbed	perturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	on	on	SCONJ	_	8 receiving	mark
8	receiving	receive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 perturbed	advcl
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 orders	det
10	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 receiving	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 owing	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 owing	mark
13	owing	owe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 receiving	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 quantity	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 quantity	det
16	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 quantity	amod
17	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 owing	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 jewels	case
19	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 quantity	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 objects	cc
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 objects	amod
22	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 jewels	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 Treasury	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Treasury	det
25	Treasury	Treasury	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 owing	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 foresaw	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 foresaw	nsubj
28	foresaw	foresee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 perturbed	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 matter	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 matter	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 matter	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 matter	cop
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 matter	det
34	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 matter	amod
35	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 foresaw	ccomp
36	to	to	PART	_	37 have	mark
37	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 matter	acl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 enumeration	det
39	enumeration	enumeration	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 have	obj
40	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 enumeration	amod
41	before	before	ADP	_	42 evening	case
42	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 complete	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 perturbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	perturb	past · passive		the Chief Treasurer			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	receive	gerund		this orders			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
3	owe	gerund			the Treasury	to the enormous quantity of jewels and other objects goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to quantity=Goal
4	foresee	past	Treasurer				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	would	it	a difficult matter			tree rules
6	have	to-infinitive	Treasurer not said here	the enumeration			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enumeration=Patient

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 77

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 77