Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 96

The Minister, having told the King of the matter, the King gave orders that the shell should at once be brought into his presence and placed upon a table before him.

Who acts: Minister, King · What happens: tell, give, bring, place · To what, where: orders, shell, presence, table · 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 (Minister, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Minister	det
2	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Minister	punct
4	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 told	aux
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 gave	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 matter	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 matter	det
10	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 King	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	ccomp
15	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gave	obj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 brought	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shell	det
18	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 brought	nsubj:pass
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 brought	aux
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 once	case
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 brought	obl
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 brought	aux:pass
23	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 gave	advcl
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 presence	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 presence	nmod:poss
26	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 brought	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 placed	cc
28	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 brought	conj
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 table	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 table	det
31	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 placed	obl
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 placed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund · perfect	the Minister				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	past	the King of the matter	orders			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
3	bring	should · passive		the shell	shell's presence		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into presence=Destination
4	place	participle			a table	before shell	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon table=Destination

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 96

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 96