Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Opening, sentence 3
SELECTED FROM THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH WRITERS.
What happens: select
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 | SELECTED | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | FROM | from | ADP | _ | 7 WRITERS | case |
| 3 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 WRITERS | det |
| 4 | MOST | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 EMINENT | advmod |
| 5 | EMINENT | eminent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 WRITERS | amod |
| 6 | ENGLISH | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 WRITERS | amod |
| 7 | WRITERS | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 SELECTED | obl:agent |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 SELECTED | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | participle | the EMINENT ENGLISH WRITERS obl:agent | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: 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: «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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