Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 83
By nightfall the enumeration was complete, the lists were all handed over to the Chief Treasurer, and the Treasury was left locked and guarded as before.
Who acts: enumeration, Chief, Treasury · What happens: be, hand over, leave, lock, guard · To what, where: nightfall, lists, Treasury
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 (enumeration, Chief, Treasury), 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 | _ | 2 nightfall | case |
| 2 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 handed | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 enumeration | det |
| 4 | enumeration | enumeration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 complete | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 complete | cop |
| 6 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 nightfall | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 nightfall | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lists | det |
| 9 | lists | list | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 handed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 handed | aux:pass |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 handed | advmod |
| 12 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 handed | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Chief | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Chief | det |
| 16 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 handed | obl:agent |
| 17 | Treasurer | Treasurer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Chief | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 left | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 left | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Treasury | det |
| 21 | Treasury | Treasury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 left | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 left | aux:pass |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 handed | conj |
| 24 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 left | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 guarded | cc |
| 26 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 locked | conj |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 before | case |
| 28 | before | before | ADV | _ | 26 guarded | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the enumeration | nightfall not said here | complete property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hand over | past · passive | the Chief | the lists | by nightfall; all property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | the Treasury | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lock | participle | the Treasury not said here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | guard | participle | the Treasury not said here | before property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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