Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 13
So next day the King summoned a council, composed of all his wisest ministers and men of science.
Who acts: King · What happens: summon, compose · To what, where: council
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 (King), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 summoned | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 summoned | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 summoned | nsubj |
| 6 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 council | det |
| 8 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 summoned | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 composed | punct |
| 10 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 council | acl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ministers | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 ministers | det:predet |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ministers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 ministers | amod |
| 15 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 composed | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 men | cc |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ministers | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 science | case |
| 19 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 men | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | the King | a council | day | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Recipient | |||
| 2 | compose | participle | a council not said here | of council's wisest ministers and men of science | vn create-26.4-1 «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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