Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 48

It was now quite dark, and the enemy’s soldiers were all asleep in their camp, some lying in tents and some in the open air, with their arms beside them ready for any alarm.

Who acts: river, soldiers, some · What happens: be, lie · To what, where: camp, tents

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Country of the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, soldiers, some), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dark	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 dark	advmod
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 dark	advmod
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 asleep	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 asleep	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 enemy	det
9	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 soldiers	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 enemy	case
11	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 asleep	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 asleep	cop
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 asleep	advmod
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dark	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 camp	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 camp	nmod:poss
17	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 asleep	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lying	punct
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 lying	nsubj
20	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 dark	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 tents	case
22	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lying	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 some	cc
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 tents	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 air	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 air	det
27	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 air	amod
28	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 some	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 arms	punct
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 arms	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 arms	nmod:poss
32	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lying	obl
33	beside	beside	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 arms	nmod
35	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lying	advcl
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 alarm	case
37	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	38 alarm	det
38	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ready	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	river		now	dark property	tree rules
2	is	past	the enemy's soldiers	soldiers's camp		all, asleep property	tree rules
3	lie	gerund	some	tents		with soldiers's arms beside soldiers	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tent=Location

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 Country of the Mice., sentence 48

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 48