Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 103
Great confusion now arose amongst the courtiers; some fled in one direction and some in another, whilst others, drawing their swords, prepared to fight with the strangers.
Who acts: Great confusion, some · What happens: arise, flee, draw, prepare, fight · To what, where: courtiers, one direction, swords
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 (Great confusion, 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 confusion | amod |
| 2 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arose | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 arose | advmod |
| 4 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 7 courtiers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 courtiers | det |
| 7 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 arose | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 fled | punct |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 fled | nsubj |
| 10 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arose | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 direction | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 direction | nummod |
| 13 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fled | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 some | cc |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 direction | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 another | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 some | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 others | punct |
| 19 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 20 others | case |
| 20 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fled | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drawing | punct |
| 22 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 fled | advcl |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 swords | nmod:poss |
| 24 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 drawing | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 prepared | punct |
| 26 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 drawing | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 fight | mark |
| 28 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 prepared | xcomp |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 strangers | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 strangers | det |
| 31 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 fight | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | Great confusion | the courtiers | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme amongst courtier=Location | |||
| 2 | flee | past | some | one direction | others conj | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | draw | gerund | some not said here | directions's swords | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 4 | prepare | participle | some not said here | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | fight not said to happen | to-infinitive | some not said here | with the strangers | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with stranger=Co-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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