Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Opening, sentence 2
ORIENTAL TALES, FOR THE _ENTERTAINMENT OF YOUTH_:
What happens: entertain · To what, where: ORIENTAL TALES, YOUTH
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: 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 | ORIENTAL | oriental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 TALES | amod |
| 2 | TALES | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ENTERTAINMENT | punct |
| 4 | FOR | for | ADP | _ | 7 ENTERTAINMENT | case |
| 5 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ENTERTAINMENT | det |
| 6 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ENTERTAINMENT | amod |
| 7 | ENTERTAINMENT | entertainment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 TALES | nmod |
| 8 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 9 YOUTH | case |
| 9 | YOUTH | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ENTERTAINMENT | nmod |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 TALES | punct |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 TALES | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | entertain | YOUTH | nom entertainment «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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