Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 57
His palace, his servants, his horses, his furniture, and, worst of all, his beautiful wife, had all disappeared utterly and completely, and nothing remained of them but a memory.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: disappear, remain · To what, where: palace
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 (nothing), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 palace | nmod:poss |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 disappeared | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 servants | punct |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 servants | nmod:poss |
| 5 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 palace | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 horses | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horses | nmod:poss |
| 8 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 palace | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 furniture | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 furniture | nmod:poss |
| 11 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 palace | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 worst | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 worst | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 worst | punct |
| 15 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 palace | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 worst | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wife | punct |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wife | amod |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 palace | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 palace | punct |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 disappeared | aux |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 disappeared | advmod |
| 25 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 26 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 25 disappeared | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 completely | cc |
| 28 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 26 utterly | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 remained | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 remained | cc |
| 31 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 32 remained | nsubj |
| 32 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 disappeared | parataxis |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 remained | obl |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 memory | cc |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 memory | det |
| 37 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 remained | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past · perfect · passive | word's palace and word's servants and word's horses and word's furniture and word's beautiful wife | all, utterly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | nothing | of servants = servant; a memory conj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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