Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 41
The whole household was summoned, and set to work to search for the missing jewel.
What happens: summon, set, work, search · To what, where: whole household
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 3 household | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 household | amod |
| 3 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 summoned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 summoned | aux:pass |
| 5 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 set | cc |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 summoned | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 work | mark |
| 10 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 set | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 search | mark |
| 12 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 work | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 jewel | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 jewel | det |
| 15 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 jewel | amod |
| 16 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 search | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past · passive | the whole household | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | search | to-infinitive | for the missing jewel | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for jewel=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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