Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 21
Before any decision was given, however, the oldest counsellor rose and addressed the meeting as follows:
Who acts: oldest counsellor · What happens: give, rise, address, follow · To what, where: decision, meeting
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 (oldest counsellor), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 given | mark |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 decision | det |
| 3 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux:pass |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 rose | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 12 rose | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 counsellor | det |
| 10 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 counsellor | amod |
| 11 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rose | nsubj |
| 12 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 addressed | cc |
| 14 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rose | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 meeting | det |
| 16 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 addressed | obj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 follows | mark |
| 18 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 addressed | advcl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | any decision | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rise | past | the oldest counsellor | however property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | address | past | the oldest counsellor not said here | the meeting | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=Destination | ||||
| 4 | follow | present | the oldest counsellor not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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