Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 55
The other people at once seized upon the wretched man, and after giving him a severe thrashing, they turned him out of the place.
Who acts: other people, people · What happens: seize, give, turn · To what, where: severe thrashing, Boy, place
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 (other people, people), 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 people | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 seized | obl |
| 6 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 man | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 turned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 turned | cc |
| 13 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 giving | mark |
| 14 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 turned | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 giving | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thrashing | det |
| 17 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thrashing | amod |
| 18 | thrashing | thrashing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 giving | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 giving | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 turned | nsubj |
| 21 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seized | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 turned | obj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 place | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 place | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 place | det |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turned | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | participle | the other people | upon the wretched man | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | gerund | people not said here | a severe thrashing | Boy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thrashing=Theme | |||
| 3 | turn | past | people | Boy | the place | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme out place=Trajectory |
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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