Folk tales from Tibet, How He Defeated the Enemy., sentence 13

So instead of opposing him they tried to soothe and conciliate him, offering him silken scarfs and other presents as he galloped to and fro.

Who acts: soldiers, Boy · What happens: oppose, try, soothe, conciliate, offer, gallop · To what, where: Boy, silken scarfs

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Defeated the Enemy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldiers, Boy), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 tried	advmod
2	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 opposing	mark
3	of	of	ADP	_	2 instead	fixed
4	opposing	oppose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 tried	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 opposing	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tried	nsubj
7	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 soothe	mark
9	soothe	soothe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tried	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 conciliate	cc
11	conciliate	conciliate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 soothe	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 conciliate	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 offering	punct
14	offering	offer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 conciliate	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 offering	obj
16	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 scarfs	amod
17	scarfs	scarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 offering	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 presents	cc
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 presents	amod
20	presents	present	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 scarfs	conj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 galloped	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 galloped	nsubj
23	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 offering	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	23 galloped	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fro	cc
26	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 galloped	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	oppose	gerund	soldiers = soldier not said here	Boy		vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	try	past	soldiers = soldier			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	soothe not said to happen	to-infinitive	soldiers = soldier not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	conciliate	infinitive	soldiers = soldier not said here	Boy		tree rules
5	offer	gerund	soldiers = soldier not said here	silken scarfs and other presents	Boy	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal scarf=Theme
6	gallop	past	Boy			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	fro	infinitive	Boy not said here			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 Defeated the Enemy., sentence 13

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Folk tales from Tibet, How He Defeated the Enemy., sentence 13