Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 90
On hearing this the Emperor no longer hesitated in fulfilling his promise to the three Thieves.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: hear, hesitate, fulfil, promise · To what, where: this, promise
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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 hesitated | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 hearing | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Emperor | det |
| 5 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 longer | advmod |
| 7 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 hesitated | advmod |
| 8 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 fulfilling | mark |
| 10 | fulfilling | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 hesitated | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 promise | nmod:poss |
| 12 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fulfilling | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Thieves | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Thieves | det |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 Thieves | nummod |
| 16 | Thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 promise | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hesitated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | this | the Emperor obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hesitate | participle | long property | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fulfil | gerund | Emperor's promise | to the three Thieves | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | promise | Emperor | to the three Thieves | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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