Folk tales from Tibet, How He Defeated the Enemy., sentence 15
These shouts were taken by the soldiers to be threats of vengeance against themselves, [11] and, finally, the General and all the principal officers, coming out in a body with scarfs, begged him to make peace and to allow them to go away quietly.
Who acts: soldiers, principal officers · What happens: take, be, come out, beg, make, allow · To what, where: These, threats, body, Boy, peace, soldiers
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, principal officers), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 soldiers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 soldiers | det |
| 7 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 taken | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 threats | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 threats | cop |
| 10 | threats | threat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 taken | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 vengeance | case |
| 12 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threats | nmod |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 themselves | case |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 vengeance | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 11 | punct |
| 16 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 17 11 | punct |
| 17 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 threats | appos |
| 18 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 17 11 | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 General | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 General | punct |
| 21 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 24 General | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 finally | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 General | det |
| 24 | General | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 taken | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 coming | cc |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 officers | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 officers | det |
| 28 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 officers | amod |
| 29 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 coming | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 coming | punct |
| 31 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 General | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADV | _ | 31 coming | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 body | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 body | det |
| 35 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 coming | obl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 scarfs | case |
| 37 | scarfs | scarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 coming | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 begged | punct |
| 39 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | conj |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 begged | obj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 make | mark |
| 42 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 begged | xcomp |
| 43 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 make | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 allow | cc |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 allow | mark |
| 46 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 make | conj |
| 47 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 allow | iobj |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 go | mark |
| 49 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 allow | xcomp |
| 50 | away | away | ADV | _ | 49 go | advmod |
| 51 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 49 go | advmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · passive | the soldiers | These | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | threats | of vengeance against soldiers; 11 appos | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come out | gerund | all principal officers | a body | with scarfs; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | the soldiers not said here | Boy | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | the soldiers not said here | peace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product | ||||
| 6 | allow | to-infinitive | the soldiers not said here | soldiers = soldier | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | go away not said to happen | to-infinitive | the soldiers not said here | away, quietly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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