Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 43

Finding that all their efforts were of no avail, the Lady of the house sent off in hot haste to summon all the most famous diviners, magicians, and lamas of the neighbourhood, and these, when they arrived, began practising all kinds of spells and casting auguries in the hope of discovering what had become of the turquoise; but all in vain, and when nightfall arrived, they were no better off than they were before.

Who acts: Lady, efforts, these, hope, nightfall · What happens: find, be, send off, summon, arrive, begin · To what, where: lamas, hot haste, famous diviners, kinds, hope, turquoise · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Lady, efforts, these, hope), 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	Finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sent	advcl
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 avail	mark
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 efforts	det:predet
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 efforts	nmod:poss
5	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 avail	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 avail	cop
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 avail	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 avail	det
9	avail	avail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Finding	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Finding	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Lady	det
12	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 sent	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Lady	nmod
16	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 sent	compound:prt
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 haste	case
19	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 haste	amod
20	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sent	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 summon	mark
22	summon	summon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sent	advcl
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 diviners	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 diviners	det
25	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	26 famous	advmod
26	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 diviners	amod
27	diviners	diviner	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 summon	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 magicians	punct
29	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 diviners	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lamas	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lamas	cc
32	lamas	lama	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sent	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 neighbourhood	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 neighbourhood	det
35	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lamas	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 arrived	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 arrived	cc
38	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	42 arrived	nsubj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 arrived	punct
40	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 arrived	advmod
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 arrived	nsubj
42	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sent	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 began	punct
44	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 arrived	conj
45	practising	practise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 began	xcomp
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 kinds	det
47	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 practising	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 spells	case
49	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 kinds	nmod
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 auguries	cc
51	casting	casting	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 auguries	compound
52	auguries	augury	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 spells	conj
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 hope	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 hope	det
55	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 practising	obl
56	of	of	SCONJ	_	57 discovering	mark
57	discovering	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	55 hope	acl
58	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	60 become	nsubj
59	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 become	aux
60	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	57 discovering	parataxis
61	of	of	ADP	_	63 turquoise	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 turquoise	det
63	turquoise	turquoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 become	xcomp
64	;	;	PUNCT	_	68 vain	punct
65	but	but	CCONJ	_	68 vain	cc
66	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	68 vain	nsubj
67	in	in	ADP	_	68 vain	case
68	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 arrived	conj
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 arrived	punct
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	73 arrived	cc
71	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	73 arrived	advmod
72	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 arrived	nsubj
73	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 vain	parataxis
74	,	,	PUNCT	_	78 better	punct
75	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	78 better	nsubj
76	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	78 better	cop
77	no	no	ADV	_	78 better	advmod
78	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	73 arrived	conj
79	off	off	ADP	_	78 better	compound:prt
80	than	than	SCONJ	_	83 before	mark
81	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	83 before	nsubj
82	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	83 before	cop
83	before	before	ADV	_	78 better	advcl
84	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	gerund	the Lady of the house not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	bustle's efforts			of no avail	tree rules
3	send off	past	the Lady of the house	lamas of the neighbourhood	hot haste		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in haste=Destination
4	summon	to-infinitive	the Lady of the house not said here	all famous diviners and magicians			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diviner=Recipient
5	arrive	past	these			efforts = effort nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	begin	past	these not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	practise	gerund	these not said here	all kinds of spells and casting auguries	the hope		tree rules
8	discover	gerund	the hope not said here				vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
9	become	past · perfect		the turquoise		what nsubj	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
10	arrive	past	nightfall				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	not is	past	efforts = effort			good property	tree rules
12	is	past	efforts = effort			before property	tree rules

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 43

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Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 43