Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 82

The three thieves, in common with the rest, were allotted each a section of the Treasury Chamber, of which they were to make a complete inventory, and whilst so employed they had no difficulty in each one secreting a large pearl after first placing it upon their list.

Who acts: Thieves, difficulty · What happens: allot, make, employ, have, secrete, place · To what, where: three thieves, complete inventory, difficulty, large pearl, list, Treasury Chamber

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 (Thieves, difficulty), 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 thieves	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thieves	nummod
3	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 allotted	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 common	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 common	case
6	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thieves	amod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 rest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rest	det
9	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 common	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thieves	punct
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 allotted	aux:pass
12	allotted	allot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 section	det
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 section	det
15	section	section	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 allotted	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 Chamber	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Chamber	det
18	Treasury	Treasury	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Chamber	compound
19	Chamber	Chamber	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 section	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 make	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 make	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 make	aux
25	to	to	PART	_	26 make	mark
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 allotted	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 inventory	det
28	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 inventory	amod
29	inventory	inventory	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 had	cc
32	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	34 employed	mark
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 employed	advmod
34	employed	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 had	advcl
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 allotted	parataxis
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 difficulty	det
38	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 had	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 one	case
40	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	41 one	det
41	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 difficulty	nmod
42	secreting	secrete	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 difficulty	acl
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 pearl	det
44	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 pearl	amod
45	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 secreting	obj
46	after	after	SCONJ	_	48 placing	mark
47	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	48 placing	advmod
48	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 secreting	advcl
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 placing	obj
50	upon	upon	ADP	_	52 list	case
51	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 list	nmod:poss
52	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 placing	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 allotted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	allot	past · passive		the three thieves		each section of the Treasury Chamber obj	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal section=Theme
2	make	past	Thieves = thief	a complete inventory		which obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset inventory=Product
3	employ	past	Thieves = thief not said here				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	Thieves = thief	no difficulty		in each one	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Patient
5	secrete	gerund	no difficulty not said here	a large pearl			tree rules
6	place	gerund	no difficulty not said here	difficulty	Thieves's list	first property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon list=Destination
7	section			the Treasury Chamber			nom section «communication transitive»: of=patient
8	list		Thieves = thief				nom list «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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 82

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 82