Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 42

For some time great bustle prevailed, everyone searching hither and thither, and ransacking every hole and corner; but no one thought of examining the piece of dirty rag thrust carelessly into a crevice of the farmyard wall.

Who acts: one thought · What happens: prevail, search, ransack, examine · To what, where: time great bustle, hole, piece, crevice

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: who acts (one thought), 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	For	for	ADP	_	5 bustle	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 bustle	nsubj
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bustle	compound
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bustle	amod
5	bustle	bustle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	prevailed	prevail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bustle	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 everyone	punct
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 bustle	conj
9	searching	search	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 everyone	acl
10	hither	hither	ADV	_	9 searching	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thither	cc
12	thither	thither	ADV	_	10 hither	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ransacking	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ransacking	cc
15	ransacking	ransack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 searching	conj
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 hole	det
17	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ransacking	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 corner	cc
19	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hole	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 thought	cc
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 thought	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thought	compound
24	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bustle	conj
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 examining	mark
26	examining	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 thought	acl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 piece	det
28	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 examining	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 thrust	case
30	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 thrust	amod
31	rag	rag	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 thrust	compound
32	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 piece	nmod
33	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	_	26 examining	advmod
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 crevice	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 crevice	det
36	crevice	crevice	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 examining	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 wall	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 wall	det
39	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 wall	compound
40	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 crevice	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bustle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prevail	participle		time great bustle everyone but no one thought not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	search	gerund			thither	hither property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	ransack	gerund		every hole and corner			vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent hole=Location
4	examine	gerund	no one thought not said here	the piece of dirty rag thrust	a crevice of the farmyard wall	carelessly property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 42