Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 59
At the first sound of the music all the pillars in the room, with the exception of the one in which Baki was concealed, began a slow and stately dance, his pillar alone remaining firm and unshaken.
Who acts: pillar · What happens: conceal, begin, remain, except · To what, where: Baki, slow dance, first sound, one
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 (pillar), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 sound | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sound | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 sound | amod |
| 4 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 began | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 music | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 music | det |
| 7 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sound | nmod |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 pillars | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pillars | det |
| 10 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 music | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 room | det |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pillars | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 exception | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 exception | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 exception | det |
| 17 | exception | exception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sound | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 exception | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 concealed | obl |
| 23 | Baki | Baki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 concealed | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 concealed | aux:pass |
| 25 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 one | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sound | punct |
| 27 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 dance | det |
| 29 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 dance | amod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 stately | cc |
| 31 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 slow | conj |
| 32 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 began | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 pillar | punct |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 pillar | nmod:poss |
| 35 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 began | parataxis |
| 36 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 35 pillar | advmod |
| 37 | remaining | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 pillar | acl |
| 38 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 remaining | xcomp |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 unshaken | cc |
| 40 | unshaken | unshaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 firm | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conceal | past · passive | Baki | in the one | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in which=Location | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | a slow dance | the first sound of the music and all pillars in the room and the exception of the one | Baki's pillar parataxis | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | remain | gerund | Baki's pillar not said here | firm property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | except | the one | nom exception «cognition 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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