Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 54
Each one began to accuse the other of theft and treachery, and before many minutes had passed the whole camp was in a state of wild confusion, comrade quarrelling with comrade, or accusing their officers of dishonesty and ill-faith.
Who acts: one, whole camp · What happens: begin, accuse, pass, be · To what, where: other, state, officers
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 (one, whole camp), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 accuse | mark |
| 5 | accuse | accuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 accuse | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 theft | case |
| 9 | theft | theft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 other | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 treachery | cc |
| 11 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 theft | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 passed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 passed | cc |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 minutes | case |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 minutes | amod |
| 16 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 passed | obl |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 passed | aux |
| 18 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 began | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 camp | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 camp | amod |
| 21 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 state | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 state | cop |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 state | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 state | det |
| 25 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 passed | acl:relcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 confusion | case |
| 27 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 confusion | amod |
| 28 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 state | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 quarrelling | punct |
| 30 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 quarrelling | compound |
| 31 | quarrelling | quarrelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 state | nmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 comrade | case |
| 33 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 quarrelling | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 accusing | punct |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 accusing | cc |
| 36 | accusing | accuse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 passed | advcl |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 officers | nmod:poss |
| 38 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 accusing | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 dishonesty | case |
| 40 | dishonesty | dishonesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 officers | nmod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 faith | cc |
| 42 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 faith | amod |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 ill | punct |
| 44 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 dishonesty | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | each one | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | accuse | to-infinitive | each one not said here | the other of theft and treachery | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent other=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | past · perfect | each one not said here | minute | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the whole camp | a state | of wild confusion; comrade quarrelling with comrade nmod | tree rules | |||
| 5 | accuse | gerund | each one not said here | confusion's officers of dishonesty and ill faith | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent officer=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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