Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 47
In addition to the magicians and lamas of the day before, a great many of the neighbours had obeyed the summons, and amongst them were the people who had treated the poor Boy so badly during their wedding feast, and the Beggar who had reviled and beaten him.
Who acts: neighbours, Beggar · What happens: obey, be, treat, revile, beat · To what, where: great many neighbours, addition, poor Boy, Boy
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 (neighbours, Beggar), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 addition | case |
| 2 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 obeyed | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 magicians | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 magicians | det |
| 5 | magicians | magician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 addition | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lamas | cc |
| 7 | lamas | lama | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 magicians | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lamas | nmod |
| 11 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 day | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 addition | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 neighbours | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 neighbours | amod |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 neighbours | amod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 neighbours | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 neighbours | det |
| 18 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 obeyed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 obeyed | aux |
| 20 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 summons | det |
| 22 | summons | summon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 obeyed | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 treated | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 treated | cc |
| 25 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 29 people | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 people | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 people | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 people | det |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 treated | obl |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 treated | aux |
| 32 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 obeyed | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Boy | det |
| 34 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Boy | amod |
| 35 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 treated | obj |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 badly | advmod |
| 37 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 treated | advmod |
| 38 | during | during | ADP | _ | 41 feast | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 feast | nmod:poss |
| 40 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 feast | compound |
| 41 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 treated | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 reviled | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 reviled | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Beggar | det |
| 45 | Beggar | Beggar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 reviled | nsubj |
| 46 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 reviled | nsubj |
| 47 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 reviled | aux |
| 48 | reviled | revile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 obeyed | conj |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 beaten | cc |
| 50 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 reviled | conj |
| 51 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 beaten | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past · perfect · passive | a great many neighbours | addition to the magicians and lamas of the day | the summons obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | neighbours = neighbour | amongst the people | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | treat | past · perfect · passive | the poor Boy | during people's wedding feast | who nsubj:pass; badly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | revile | past · perfect | the Beggar | who nsubj | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | beat | participle | the Beggar not said here | Boy | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=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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