Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Opening, sentence 1
“A certain Cham of Tartary going a progress with his nobles, was met by a Dervise, who cried with a loud voice,”—“Whoever will give me a hundred pieces of gold, I will give him a piece of advice.”——Page 13.]
Who acts: certain Cham, Dervise, Whoever, I · What happens: go, meet, cry, give · To what, where: progress, certain Cham, hundred pieces, me, piece, Cham
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain Cham, Dervise, Whoever, I), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 met | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Cham | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Cham | amod |
| 4 | Cham | Cham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 met | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Tartary | case |
| 6 | Tartary | Tartary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Cham | nmod |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Cham | acl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 progress | det |
| 9 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 going | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 nobles | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 12 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 progress | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Cham | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 met | aux:pass |
| 15 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Dervise | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Dervise | det |
| 18 | Dervise | Dervise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 met | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cried | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 cried | nsubj |
| 21 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Dervise | acl:relcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 voice | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 voice | det |
| 24 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 voice | amod |
| 25 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cried | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 cried | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 met | punct |
| 28 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 give | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 give | punct |
| 30 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 give | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 give | aux |
| 32 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 met | parataxis |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 give | iobj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 hundred | det |
| 35 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 pieces | nummod |
| 36 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 give | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 gold | case |
| 38 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pieces | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 give | punct |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 give | nsubj |
| 41 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 give | aux |
| 42 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 give | conj |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 give | iobj |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 piece | det |
| 45 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 give | obj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 advice | case |
| 47 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 piece | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 met | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 met | punct |
| 50 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 met | punct |
| 51 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 52 Page | punct |
| 52 | Page | Page | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 met | obj |
| 53 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 52 Page | flat |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 met | punct |
| 55 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 15 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | gerund | a certain Cham of Tartary not said here | a progress | with Cham's nobles | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location progress=Theme | |||
| 2 | meet in a quote | past · passive | a Dervise | a certain Cham of Tartary | Page obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | a Dervise | with a loud voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with voice=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | future | Whoever | hundred pieces of gold | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient piece=Theme | |||
| 5 | give in a quote | future | I | a piece of advice | Cham | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient piece=Theme |
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: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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