Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 106
Baki now pointed to the King, and in a moment the band of armed men fell upon him, cut him to pieces, and disappeared with shouts of triumph through the roof of the palace.
Who acts: Baki, band · What happens: point, fall, cut, disappear, shout · To what, where: King, band, roof
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 (Baki, band), 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 | Baki | Baki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pointed | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 pointed | advmod |
| 3 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 King | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pointed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fell | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 band | det |
| 13 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 men | case |
| 15 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 men | amod |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 band | nmod |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pointed | parataxis |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fell | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cut | punct |
| 21 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 fell | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cut | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 pieces | case |
| 24 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 cut | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 disappeared | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 disappeared | cc |
| 27 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pointed | advcl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 shouts | case |
| 29 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 disappeared | ccomp |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 triumph | case |
| 31 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shouts | obl |
| 32 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 roof | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 roof | det |
| 34 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shouts | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 palace | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 palace | det |
| 37 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 roof | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | past | Baki | the King | now | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | |||
| 2 | fall | past | the band of armed men | moment | upon man | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | |||
| 3 | cut | infinitive | the band of armed men not said here | band | to pieces result | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to piece=Result | |||
| 4 | disappear | past | Baki not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | shout speech: express | present | Baki not said here | the roof of the palace | of triumph | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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