Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 104
Meanwhile the armed men, who were in reality demons, placed temporarily under the command of Prince Baki, looked fiercely around them, and waving their swords, shouted to the Prince, “Whom shall we kill?
Who acts: armed men, we · What happens: be, place, look, wave, shout, kill · To what, where: reality demons, command, swords, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (armed men, we), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 21 looked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 3 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 demons | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 demons | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 demons | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 demons | case |
| 9 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 demons | compound |
| 10 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 men | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 placed | punct |
| 12 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 demons | acl |
| 13 | temporarily | temporarily | ADV | _ | 12 placed | advmod |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 command | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 command | det |
| 16 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 placed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Prince | case |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 command | nmod |
| 19 | Baki | Baki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Prince | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 men | punct |
| 21 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 21 looked | advmod |
| 23 | around | around | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 looked | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 waving | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 waving | cc |
| 27 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 looked | advcl |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 swords | nmod:poss |
| 29 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 waving | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 shouted | punct |
| 31 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 waving | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 Prince | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Prince | det |
| 34 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 shouted | obl:agent |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 kill | punct |
| 36 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 kill | punct |
| 37 | Whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 kill | obj |
| 38 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 kill | aux |
| 39 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 kill | nsubj |
| 40 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 shouted | advcl |
| 41 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the armed men | in reality demons | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | place | participle | reality demons not said here | the command of Prince | temporarily property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under command=Destination | |||
| 3 | look | past | the armed men | around demons = demon; fiercely, meanwhile property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wave | gerund | the armed men not said here | demons's swords | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient | ||||
| 5 | shout speech: express | participle | the Prince obl:agent | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | kill in a quote | shall | we | Whom obj | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | ||||
| 7 | command | Prince | nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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