Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 81
By the Treasurer’s orders, the gates were at once thrown open, and the officials, entering the treasury, began the enumeration.
Who acts: orders, Treasurer · What happens: throw, enter, begin, order · To what, where: gates, treasury, 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 (orders, Treasurer), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 5 orders | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Treasurer | det |
| 3 | Treasurer | Treasurer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 orders | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Treasurer | case |
| 5 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thrown | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 orders | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gates | det |
| 8 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thrown | aux:pass |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 thrown | obl |
| 12 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thrown | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 officials | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 officials | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 officials | det |
| 17 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thrown | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 entering | punct |
| 19 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 thrown | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 treasury | det |
| 21 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 entering | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 began | punct |
| 23 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thrown | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 enumeration | det |
| 25 | enumeration | enumeration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 began | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past · passive | the Treasurer's orders | the gates | the officials conj; open property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent subject=Theme at once=Destination | |||
| 2 | enter | gerund | the Treasurer's orders not said here | the treasury | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme treasury=Destination | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the Treasurer's orders not said here | the enumeration | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enumeration=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | order | the Treasurer | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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