Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 102
In an instant each piece of the shell turned into an armed man, and Prince Baki himself appeared amongst them in his proper form.
Who acts: piece, Baki, shell · What happens: turn, appear, form · To what, where: instant, proper form
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (piece, Baki, shell), 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 | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | obl |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 piece | det |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 shell | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shell | det |
| 8 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nmod |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 appeared | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 appeared | cc |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Baki | nmod:desc |
| 17 | Baki | Baki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 appeared | nsubj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 Baki | nmod |
| 19 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 turned | conj |
| 20 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 appeared | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 form | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 form | nmod:poss |
| 24 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 form | amod |
| 25 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 appeared | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | participle | each piece of the shell | a instant | into a armed man | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in instant=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | appear | past | Baki Prince shell | shell's proper form | amongst pieces = piece | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme amongst they=Location | |||
| 3 | form | shell | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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