--- title: Towards evening, when the feast was completed, the guests withdrew,… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: Towards evening, when the feast was completed, the guests withdrew, and the Boy was left alone with his Bride; and she began asking him what the matter was, and why he had been behaving so strangely during the banquet. Who acts: guests, Bride, matter, feast. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guests, Bride, matter, feast), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:7:72 # text = Towards evening, when the feast was completed, the guests withdrew, and the Boy was left alone with his Bride; and she began asking him what the matter was, and why he had been behaving so strangely during the banquet. 1 Towards toward NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 compound _ _ 2 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 completed complete VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 guests guest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 withdrew withdraw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Boy Boy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 19 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 Bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 27 asking ask VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 xcomp _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 27 ccomp _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 39 aux _ _ 39 behaving behave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 conj _ _ 40 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 strangely strangely ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 42 during during ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 banquet banquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **complete** | past · passive | | Towards evening | | | | the feast *nsubj:pass* | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **withdraw** | past | the guests | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **leave** | past · passive | | the Boy | | | | with feast's Bride; alone *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with bride=Theme | | 4 | **begin** | past | Bride | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Bride *not said here* | | feast | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 6 | **is a** | past | the matter | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **behave** | past · perfect · progressive | feast | | | | during the banquet | strangely *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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. - ← previous: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/73/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/)