Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 84
Next day, at six o’clock, the Emperor seated himself in his Hall of Audience, and summoned the three Thieves before him.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: seat, summon · To what, where: Emperor, Hall, 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: who acts (Emperor), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seated | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 o’clock | punct |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 o’clock | case |
| 5 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 o’clock | nummod |
| 6 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Emperor | det |
| 9 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 seated | nsubj |
| 10 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 seated | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Hall | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Hall | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 seated | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Audience | case |
| 16 | Audience | Audience | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Hall | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 summoned | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 summoned | cc |
| 19 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seated | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Thieves | det |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 Thieves | nummod |
| 22 | Thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 summoned | obj |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 summoned | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past | the Emperor | Emperor | Emperor's Hall of Audience | day | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Value in hall=Location | ||
| 2 | summon | past | the Emperor not said here | the three Thieves | before Emperor | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Recipient |
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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