Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 87
The Thieves bowed themselves humbly before the Emperor, and without making any reply each one produced a pearl and laid it on the steps of the throne.
Who acts: Thieves · What happens: bow, make, produce, lay, step · To what, where: Thieves, reply, pearl, throne
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), 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 | 2 Thieves | det |
| 2 | Thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bowed | nsubj |
| 3 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 bowed | obj |
| 5 | humbly | humbly | ADV | _ | 3 bowed | advmod |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 Emperor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Emperor | det |
| 8 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bowed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 produced | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 produced | cc |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 making | mark |
| 12 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 produced | advcl |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 reply | det |
| 14 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 making | obj |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 making | xcomp |
| 17 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bowed | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pearl | det |
| 19 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 produced | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 laid | cc |
| 21 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 produced | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 laid | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 steps | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 steps | det |
| 25 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 laid | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 throne | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 throne | det |
| 28 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 steps | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | the Thieves | Thieves = thief | before the Emperor | humbly property | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | ||
| 2 | make | gerund | any reply | each one xcomp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset reply=Product | ||||
| 3 | produce | past | a pearl | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Result | |||||
| 4 | lay | past | reply | on the steps of the throne | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on step=Destination | ||||
| 5 | step | the throne | nom step «act transitive»: of=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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