Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 3

In response to this notice many Lamas and recluses presented themselves at the palace, and by means of prayers and religious ceremonies they endeavoured to obtain from the gods what the King and Queen desired; but all their efforts were in vain, and the years passed by without any offspring being born.

Who acts: many Lamas, Lama, King, efforts, years · What happens: present, mean, endeavour, obtain, desire, be · To what, where: Lama, response, religious ceremonies, gods, offspring

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many Lamas, Lama, King, efforts), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 response	case
2	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 presented	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 notice	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 notice	det
5	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 response	nmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Lamas	amod
7	Lamas	lama	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 presented	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 recluses	cc
9	recluses	recluse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 Lamas	conj
10	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 presented	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 palace	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 palace	det
14	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 presented	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 means	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 means	cc
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 means	case
18	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 presented	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 prayers	case
20	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 means	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ceremonies	cc
22	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ceremonies	amod
23	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 prayers	conj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 endeavoured	nsubj
25	endeavoured	endeavour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 ceremonies	acl:relcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 obtain	mark
27	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 endeavoured	xcomp
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 gods	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 gods	det
30	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 obtain	obl
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 desired	obj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 King	det
33	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 desired	nsubj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 Queen	cc
35	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 King	conj
36	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 gods	acl:relcl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 vain	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 vain	cc
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 efforts	det:predet
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 efforts	nmod:poss
41	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 vain	nsubj
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 vain	cop
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 vain	case
44	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 presented	parataxis
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 passed	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 passed	cc
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 years	det
48	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 passed	nsubj
49	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 vain	conj
50	by	by	ADP	_	53 offspring	case
51	without	without	ADP	_	53 offspring	case
52	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	53 offspring	det
53	offspring	offspring	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 passed	obl
54	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 born	aux:pass
55	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 offspring	acl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 presented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	present	past	many Lamas and recluses	Lama	response to this notice	at the palace	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
2	mean	present				of prayers and religious ceremonies	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	endeavour	past	Lama	religious ceremonies not said here			tree rules
4	obtain	to-infinitive	Lama not said here			from the gods	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from god=Source
5	desire	past	the King and Queen	the gods			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
6	is	past	King's efforts			vain property	tree rules
7	pass	participle	the years			by any offspring	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by offspring=Location
8	bear	gerund · passive		any offspring not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 3

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 3