Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 89
The Treasurer hurried off to do so, and after a short while he reappeared, and informed the Emperor that, having carefully counted all the jewels, and having compared the numbers in the Treasury with the numbers on the inventory, he found that three pearls were indeed missing.
Who acts: Treasurer, Emperor, three pearls · What happens: hurry off, do, reappear, inform, have, count · To what, where: Emperor, jewels, numbers, Treasury · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Treasurer, Emperor, three pearls), 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 Treasurer | det |
| 2 | Treasurer | Treasurer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hurried | nsubj |
| 3 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 hurried | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hurried | xcomp |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 do | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reappeared | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reappeared | cc |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 short | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 short | det |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 reappeared | advcl |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 reappeared | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reappeared | nsubj |
| 15 | reappeared | reappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurried | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 informed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 informed | cc |
| 18 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurried | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Emperor | det |
| 20 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 informed | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 informed | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 having | punct |
| 23 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 informed | conj |
| 24 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 25 counted | advmod |
| 25 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 having | advcl |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 jewels | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 jewels | det |
| 28 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 counted | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 compared | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 compared | cc |
| 31 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 compared | aux |
| 32 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 hurried | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 numbers | det |
| 34 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 compared | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 Treasury | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Treasury | det |
| 37 | Treasury | Treasury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 numbers | nmod |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 numbers | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 numbers | det |
| 40 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 compared | obl |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 inventory | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 inventory | det |
| 43 | inventory | inventory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 numbers | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 found | punct |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 found | nsubj |
| 46 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurried | conj |
| 47 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 52 missing | mark |
| 48 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 49 pearls | nummod |
| 49 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 missing | nsubj |
| 50 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 missing | cop |
| 51 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 52 missing | advmod |
| 52 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 found | ccomp |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry off | past | the Treasurer | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the Treasurer not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reappear | past | Treasurer | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | inform speech: other | past | the Emperor | that obj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | count | participle | all jewels | carefully property | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme | ||||
| 7 | compare | gerund · perfect | the Treasurer not said here | the numbers | the Treasury | with the numbers on the inventory | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent number=Patient with number=Co-Patient | ||
| 8 | find | past | Emperor | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | is | past | three pearls | indeed, missing property | tree rules |
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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