Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 46
When all the preliminaries had been satisfactorily arranged, a party of horsemen arrived from the Bride’s house to greet the Bridegroom and to bring him home.
Who acts: party · What happens: arrange, arrive, greet, bring · To what, where: preliminaries, house, Bridegroom
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (party), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 arranged | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 preliminaries | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 preliminaries | det |
| 4 | preliminaries | preliminary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 arranged | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 arranged | aux:pass |
| 7 | satisfactorily | satisfactorily | ADV | _ | 8 arranged | advmod |
| 8 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 arrived | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 arranged | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 party | det |
| 11 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arrived | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 horsemen | case |
| 13 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 party | nmod |
| 14 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Bride | det |
| 17 | Bride | Bride | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Bride | case |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arrived | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 greet | mark |
| 21 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 arrived | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Bridegroom | det |
| 23 | Bridegroom | Bridegroom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 greet | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bring | cc |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 bring | mark |
| 26 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 greet | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bring | obj |
| 28 | home | home | ADV | _ | 26 bring | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrange | past · perfect · passive | all preliminaries | satisfactorily property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | a party of horsemen | the Bride's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | to-infinitive | a party of horsemen not said here | the Bridegroom | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | to-infinitive | a party of horsemen not said here | Bridegroom | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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