Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 55
So on the last night of the ninth year he went to bed as usual in his magnificent chamber, clothed in rich silks, and surrounded by all the evidences of wealth and luxury.
Who acts: word · What happens: go, clothe, surround, evidence · To what, where: magnificent chamber, wealth
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 night | det |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 night | amod |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 year | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 year | det |
| 8 | ninth | ninth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 year | amod |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 night | nmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 usual | case |
| 15 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 chamber | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 18 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 chamber | amod |
| 19 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 clothed | punct |
| 21 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 chamber | acl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 silks | case |
| 23 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 silks | amod |
| 24 | silks | silk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 clothed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 surrounded | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 surrounded | cc |
| 27 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 went | conj |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 evidences | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 evidences | det:predet |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 evidences | det |
| 31 | evidences | evidence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 wealth | case |
| 33 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 evidences | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 luxury | cc |
| 35 | luxury | luxury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wealth | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | word | word's magnificent chamber | night | to bed; as usual | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | clothe | participle | word's magnificent chamber not said here | in rich silks | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in silk=Theme | ||||
| 3 | surround | participle | word not said here | all evidences of wealth and luxury obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | evidence | wealth and luxury | nom evidence «cognition 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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