Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 66
All the friends and neighbours from round about were gathered there ready to share in the feast, and to offer their congratulations to the Bride and Bridegroom.
Who acts: friends · What happens: gather, share, offer, congratulate · To what, where: friends, feast, congratulations, Bride
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 (friends), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 friends | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 friends | det |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 neighbours | cc |
| 5 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 friends | conj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 round | case |
| 7 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 friends | parataxis |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 round | obl |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gathered | aux:pass |
| 10 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 gathered | advmod |
| 12 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gathered | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 share | mark |
| 14 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ready | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 feast | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 feast | det |
| 17 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 share | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 offer | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 offer | cc |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 offer | mark |
| 21 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gathered | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 congratulations | nmod:poss |
| 23 | congratulations | congratulation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 offer | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Bride | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Bride | det |
| 26 | Bride | Bride | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 offer | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Bridegroom | cc |
| 28 | Bridegroom | Bridegroom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Bride | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past · passive | all friends and neighbours | there | ready property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | share | to-infinitive | the feast | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | offer | to-infinitive | friends's congratulations | the Bride and Bridegroom | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent congratulation=Theme to bride=Goal | ||||
| 4 | congratulate | friends = friend | nom congratulation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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