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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 43

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But after some time the Emperor, wearied by the confusion, and unable, in spite of everything, to make a satisfactory meal, gave orders that the whole of the Cooks and other attendants responsible for his table-service should be imprisoned, and that unless a satisfactory explanation of their negligence could be given before this evening they should be beheaded.

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**Who acts:** confusion, Cooks, evening, Emperor, negligence · **What happens:** weary, make, give, imprison, behead, spite · **To what, where:** Emperor, satisfactory meal, orders, other attendants, satisfactory explanation, attendants

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Three Thieves.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (confusion, Cooks, evening, Emperor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:15:43
# text = But after some time the Emperor, wearied by the confusion, and unable, in spite of everything, to make a satisfactory meal, gave orders that the whole of the Cooks and other attendants responsible for his table-service should be imprisoned, and that unless a satisfactory explanation of their negligence could be given before this evening they should be beheaded.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	wearied	weary	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	satisfactory	satisfactory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advcl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Cooks	Cook	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	responsible	responsible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
41	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
44	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	obl	_	_
50	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	satisfactory	satisfactory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj:pass	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	negligence	negligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
57	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
58	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	aux:pass	_	_
59	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
60	before	before	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	62	det	_	_
62	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	_
63	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	nsubj:pass	_	_
64	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	66	aux	_	_
65	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	66	aux:pass	_	_
66	beheaded	behead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	62	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weary** | participle · passive | the confusion | the Emperor |  |  | time |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a satisfactory meal |  |  |  | that *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meal=Product |
| 3 | **give** | past |  | orders |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 4 | **imprison** | should · passive | the Cooks *not said here* | other attendants |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | could · passive |  | a satisfactory explanation of attendants's negligence |  |  | evening |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **behead** | should · passive | this evening *not said here* | attendants *= attendant* |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **spite** |  |  | everything |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **service** |  | Emperor |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **explain** |  | attendants's negligence |  |  |  |  |  | nom explanation «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**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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