Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 107
When the courtiers saw what had happened, they hastened to prostrate themselves before the feet of so powerful a magician, and installed Baki as their new king.
Who acts: courtiers · What happens: see, happen, hasten, prostrate, install · To what, where: courtiers, Baki · 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 (courtiers), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 courtiers | det |
| 3 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hastened | advcl |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | aux |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hastened | nsubj |
| 10 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 prostrate | mark |
| 12 | prostrate | prostrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hastened | xcomp |
| 13 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 prostrate | obj |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 feet | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 feet | det |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 prostrate | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 powerful | case |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 powerful | advmod |
| 19 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feet | amod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 magician | det |
| 21 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 powerful | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 installed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 installed | cc |
| 24 | installed | install | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hastened | conj |
| 25 | Baki | Baki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 installed | obj |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 king | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 king | nmod:poss |
| 28 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 king | amod |
| 29 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 installed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the courtiers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hasten | past | courtiers = courtier | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | prostrate | to-infinitive | courtiers = courtier not said here | courtiers = courtier | before the feet | tree rules | |||
| 5 | install | past | courtiers = courtier not said here | Baki | as courtiers's new king | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent baki=Theme as king=Attribute |
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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