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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 103

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Great confusion now arose amongst the courtiers; some fled in one direction and some in another, whilst others, drawing their swords, prepared to fight with the strangers.

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**Who acts:** Great confusion, some · **What happens:** arise, flee, draw, prepare, fight · **To what, where:** courtiers, one direction, swords

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great confusion, some), 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:pg75000:22:103
# text = Great confusion now arose amongst the courtiers; some fled in one direction and some in another, whilst others, drawing their swords, prepared to fight with the strangers.
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | Great confusion |  |  | the courtiers | now |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme amongst courtier=Location |
| 2 | **flee** | past | some |  |  | one direction |  | others *conj* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **draw** | gerund | some *not said here* | directions's swords |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 4 | **prepare** | participle | some *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **fight** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | some *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the strangers | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with stranger=Co-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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